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Multiple Independent Domestications Changed Animal Lineages
- Domestication happened multiple times and in different places rather than as a single spread from one origin.
- Genetic and archaeological evidence (e.g., pigs, sheep, goats) show independent domestication events and later mixtures between lineages.
Feral Animals On Cyprus Show Escape And Rewilding
- Some transported domestic animals escaped and became feral, as on Cyprus where wild sheep and goats likely ran back to the mountains.
- The podcast cites Cyprus evidence where transported animals escaped and remained wild again.
Fertile Crescent Farming Traveled Westward Into Europe
- Farming from the Fertile Crescent spread into Europe along the Balkans, reaching Iberia then northern Europe over millennia.
- Archaeobotanical records show wheat, barley, pigs and cattle moving westward from around 6500 BCE into Britain and southern Scandinavia.