ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 44: Aurochs, Chicken, Intensive Animal Farming
Document Summary
Teeth: crowding is more common in domesticates but not reliable measure though. In domestic pigs can see a gradual decrease in tooth size. Overall size: may see a decrease in size between wild/domesticate (ex. cattle), but may have climate/environmental factors. Changes in features like hair/wool can be preserved. Small, easily handled herd animals who prefer to follow a dominant individual. Can be raised in a confined environment. Domestic goats about 8000 bce in iran. Cattle were much more difficult to tame. They were probably domesticated from bos primigenius (sp) in southwest. Domestic cattle produce surplus milk and have been bred for that characteristic or to produce larger amounts of meat than their wild ancestors. Wild chickens do not lay surplus eggs, and normally stop laying once a certain number of eggs are in the nest. The domestic hen is probably from the gallus sp. (wild indian and south-east. Early evidence for domestic chickens has been found in.
