Nearly 13,000 years ago, Humans May Have Begun Caring for Animals

The discovery of burned dung imply the beginning of animal husbandry occured roughly 2,000 years earlier.

The commonly held belief that humans domesticated plants before animals. And that is called into question by clues found in ancient animal feces in a recently published paper in PLoS One¹. The preserved excrement in issue was discovered by researchers and was buried near prehistoric hunter-gatherer homes that date back to about 13,000 years ago.

Dung is …