The world's leading meat animal for much of modern history, domesticated from the wild boar independently in Anatolia and in China. An omnivore that fattens on scraps, mast and surplus grain, the pig has been the household protein bank of peasant economies from Han China to early modern Europe. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Scientific Name Domestication RegionAnatolia and separately China 2 Domesticated When (Circa)circa 8500 BC in Anatolia; circa 6000 BC in China 2 Primary Uses Era
Era (category) Pig
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Pigs were domesticated independently twice during the Neolithic, in the Near East around the Tigris Basin, and in China.
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There were pigs in Cyprus more than 11,400 years ago, implying domestication in the adjacent mainland by then.
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