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    Animals Domestic cats reached Europe during the Roman Empire, not with Neolithic farming.

    A new genomic study published in Science has overturned a long-held belief about when domestic cats arrived in Europe, finding that they were introduced not by Neolithic farmers thousands of years ago, but rather around 2,000 years ago — most likely from North Africa. Background and Previous...
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    Cats domesticated in East Mediterranean during the Neolithic

    Ancient DNA reveals how cats conquered the world "Humans may have had pet cats for as long as 9,500 years. In 2004, archaeologists in Cyprus found a complete cat skeleton buried in a Stone Age village. Given that Cyprus has no native wildcats, the animal (or perhaps its ancestors) must have...
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