A Zooarchaeological Study on the Origins of Animal Domestication in Ancient China

A series of criteria such as morphological metrics, pathology, age structure, sex ratios, relative proportions, archaeological phenomena, diet analysis, and DNA studies are established for identifying the origins domestic animals in ancient China a scientific way. Using these criteria, it is that earliest dog has been found southern Hebei Province (ca. 10,000 BP), pig Henan 9000 BP). Domestic sheep have Gansu–Qinghai region dating from 5600–5000 BP, cattle eastern Gansu 5000 horses period 4000–3600 BP discovered Gansu, chickens identified sites to ca. 3300 BP. Although locations time animal domestication vary, they mostly located northern China.