New Archaeological Findings Tracing 9000-Year Old Domestic Pigs in China
New Archaeological Findings Tracing 9000-Year Old Domestic Pigs in China The beginning of February, 2019 saw exciting archaeological discoveries and studies in China that the countrywas one of the earliest places in the world to domesticate pigs about 9,000 years ago. “Our research confirms that pig bones excavated from the Jiahu (贾湖)relic site in Wuyang (舞阳)County, central China’s Henan Province, date back 9,000 years and belong to domestic pigs,” said Yuan Jing, a researcher with the Institute of Archaeology under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Foreign scholars have found remains of domestic pigs from around the same period…