Pet cats arrived in China via the Silk Road 1,400 years ago, ancient DNA study finds

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Pet cats arrived in China via the Silk Road 1,400 years ago, ancient DNA study finds

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ArchaeologyEnglish · 5 months ago

How and when domestic cats arrived in China has been a mystery. A new analysis of cat DNA suggests traders and diplomats likely carried the pets with them along the Silk Road 1,400 years ago.

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Huh, I just kind of assumed it was earlier than that.

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Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.

Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time.

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