Initially tempted chickens. down from trees and into the domestication of riceaccording to research.
Chicken one of most popular products in in world Today with more how one billion birds are killed annually in only UK. But university researchers of Exeter University of Oxford and Cardiff University speak in a new studies that birds are actually relatively new addition to our farms.
It was previously believed that chickens were bred for Table up up to 10,000 years ago, but new report published in Antiquity magazine suggests the people did not come into close contact with chickens until about 1500 B.C.
Researchers use carbon dating to determine age of 23 of offered earliest chicks found in Western Eurasia and north-West Africa. Most of the bones were far away more more recent than previously thought.
Dr Julia Best from Cardiff University said: “This first time when radiocarbon dating was used on this scale to determine the significance of chickens in early societies. Our results demonstrate need to directly date suggested early designs as this allows us the clearest picture of our early interactions with chickens.”
chickens, native into the tropical jungle of Southeast Asia, not arrive in Europe until about 800 BC Then after arriving in mediterranean region took almost 1000 years longer for chickens in colder climate of Scotland, Ireland, Scandinavia and Iceland.
Experts overestimate chicken meat remains found in more over 600 sites in 89 countries. They are found that the oldest bones of a certain domestic chicken was in the Neolithic Ban Non Wat in central Thailand dating between 1650 and 1250 BC.
Researchers say people made contact with jungle birds that lived high up in trees during drought rice Agriculture. ancient ancestors of seduced domestic chickens down from the trees at rice.
After they were domesticated, the chickens were transported first through Asia and then all over the Mediterranean along the routes used by the early Greek, Etruscan and Phoenician sea traders.
Professor Greger Larson from the University of Oxford, said: “This comprehensive reassessment of chicks show for the first time how wrong Our understanding of time and place of domestication of chickens was. And even more exciting, we show how in arrival of dry rice agriculture served as a catalyst for both the process of domesticating chickens and global dispersal”.
Previous research showed that chickens were not originally domesticated. for food as well as exotic. Earlier research found that chickens seemed to be respected in iron age society for for example, and they were often buried whole and uncut, with their chickens or sometimes even with their human masters. Chickens and their eggs began to be popularized as food during Roman times.
Professor Naomi Sykes from the University of Exeter, said, “There are chicks so common what people I don’t think we’ve ever eaten them. Our evidence shows that our past attitude with the chickens were away more complicated and what for chickens have been celebrated and honored for centuries.”
