Avtor/Urednik		Kryštufek, Boris
Naslov		Človek in domače živali (2): začetki domestifikacije
Prevedeni naslov		Humans and tamed animals (2): the beginnings of domestification
Tip		članek
Vir		Proteus
Vol. in št.		Letnik 59, št. 2
Leto izdaje		1996
Obseg		str. 70-6
Jezik		slo
Abstrakt		The first animal to be tamed by man, in approximately 10 000 B.C., was the dog. The next step, in 6000-7000 B.C., was to include four species which are still the basis of animal husbandry: the goat, lamb, cattle, and pig. The cradle of taming was in the Fertile Crescent, that is Mesopotamia and the Mediaterranean shores of Asia Minor, Lebanon and Israe. The second such center was in Eastern Asia. The New World has given us very few tamed animals. Approximately 11 000 years ago, man appeared, while 34 mammalian species disappeared in North America and 46 in South America. According to Martin's model, this massive extermination could have been due to the "Paleoindians", who so affected biodiversity that in the next millenia in the New World there were almost no animals capable of being tamed.
Deskriptorji		ANIMALS, DOMESTIC URBANIZATION ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE CLIMATE