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People Ate Pork in the Middle East Until 1,000 B.C.–What Changed?
- JumpCrisscross 8y agoTL; DR “Sometime in the late second or first millennium BC, the chicken was introduced into the Middle East. ... In arid and semiarid areas of the Middle East, the pig and the chicken compete for food and labor in the human subsistence system. I hypothesize that in arid and semiarid areas of the Middle East, the chicken largely replaced the pig because the chicken is a more efficient source of protein, it produces a secondary product, the egg, and it is a smaller package; hence, a family can consume one in a day or two. This made the pig redundant and available for use in other human systems.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10814-015-9083-2 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10814-015-9083-2