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A New Study Finds That Domestic Cats Traveled the Silk Road to China About 1,400 Years Ago
The modern world’s pet cats are products of a long process of domestication and trade. It began some 10,000 years ago in ...
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Pet Cats Arrived In China 1,400 Years Ago, And Kittens Were Given As Gifts To The Elite
The domestication and trade of pet cats began about 10,000 years ago in modern-day Turkey when Anatolians tamed Near Eastern ...
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Pet cats arrived in China via the Silk Road 1,400 years ago, ancient DNA study finds
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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New study reveals domestic cats arrived in China via the Silk Road around 600 CE
New research suggests that domestic cats first appeared in China around 600 CE, likely arriving via the Silk Road trade route. The study, which analyzed 22 feline remains from 14 archaeological ...
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China’s First Domestic Cats Took the Silk Road 1,400 Years Ago, New Study Finds
Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennia ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, the ...
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Pet cats arrived in China via the Silk Road 1,400 years ago, ancient DNA study finds
Credit: Hunan Museum Collection Database. China's first pet cats arrived in the country around 1,400 years ago — likely via the famous Silk Road trading route, ancient feline DNA reveals.