Author/Editor		Kryštufek, Boris
Title		Človek in domače živali (2): začetki domestifikacije
Translated title		Humans and tamed animals (2): the beginnings of domestification
Type		članek
Source		Proteus
Vol. and No.		Letnik 59, št. 2
Publication year		1996
Volume		str. 70-6
Language		slo
Abstract		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.
Descriptors		ANIMALS, DOMESTIC URBANIZATION ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE CLIMATE