The earliest evidence of cattle domestication comes from the Eastern Sahara, where climatic desiccation advanced most rapidly.
Evidence
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
- XREF: connects to: Desertification forced ancient humans to domesticate cattle as a food resource. — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 162; African Bos primigenius was the primary source for early Saharan domesticated cattle. — Revisiting a hoary chestnut: the nature of early cattle domestication … - PMC; Nomads who roamed the Sahara millennia ago were the first to domesticate cattle. — Archaeologist: Cattle first kept in Sahara (+6 more)
Related
- Nomads who roamed the Sahara millennia ago were the first to domesticate cattle. (similarity 0.91)
- African Bos primigenius was the primary source for early Saharan domesticated cattle. (similarity 0.90)
- The earliest verifiable domesticated cattle at Nabta Playa is c. 5600 bc. (similarity 0.88)
- Desertification forced ancient humans to domesticate cattle as a food resource. (similarity 0.87)
- Cattle could have been domesticated independently in Africa at the same time as in the Middle East, around 10,000 years ago. (similarity 0.86)
- Cattle arrived in Africa in 6000 BCE from the Middle East, not from independent domestication in the Sahara. (similarity 0.86)
- In the 1980s, archaeologists began to argue that inhabitants of northeastern Africa had domesticated cattle independently some 10,000 years ago. (similarity 0.86)
- Around 4000 BP a climate change leading to desertification of the Sahara forced cattle and pastoralists southward. (similarity 0.85)
- Modern cattle breeds descended from multiple independent domestication events of the wild aurochs. (similarity 0.84)
- Middle Nile evidence suggests independent origins of cattle in Africa 10,000 years ago. (similarity 0.83)
- Early cattle remains from Nabta Playa were wild hunted aurochs, whilst domesticated cattle were introduced to northeast Africa in the late 7th millennium BC. (similarity 0.83)
- Pastoralism blossomed in the Sahara from around 1000 years before collapse; humans may have held back the Sahara desert by around 500 years. (similarity 0.83)
- Ancient African domestic cattle are so distinct from both taurine and indicine cattle that they could derive from a separate domestication of African aurochs. (similarity 0.82)
- The transition to desert would have happened about 500 years earlier without the influence of hunter-gatherers and cattle-herders. (similarity 0.81)
- Pastoralism spread across the Sahara while it was still well-watered, and may have delayed desertification. (similarity 0.81)