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Unanswered is the question of where and when a chicken would first have an opportunity to cross a road. The article reports that researchers traced chickens gen
by jshprentz 6y ago
Unanswered is the question of where and when a chicken would first have an opportunity to cross a road. The article reports that researchers traced chickens genetically back to southeast Asian pheasants domesticated around 7500 BCE. Beyond the title, the article mentions nothing about roads. At what point in history did some trails and paths become roads?
- masklinn 6y agoThere were stone-paved streets in Harappa and Ur, circa 4000BCE. There's also evidence of log roads in England appearing between 4000 BCE and 3800BCE. Brick paving appeared in India around 3000BCE. By 2000 BCE, the "leading edge" roads had become quite advanced: Minos had tens of kilometers worth of roads which were not just paved but mortared, on thick subgrade, with side-drains and distinct shoulders, and anatolian roads had sidewalks.
- mrlonglong 6y agoAnd the Romans perfected the art of building long and straight roads, some of which still are in use today.
- TomMarius 6y agoMostly just the same place, though. Even the terrain around it is probably very different.
- samatman 6y agoAh yes, the Road of Theseus problem.
- mrlonglong 6y agoIs it the same road if it is renumbered ?
- soperj 6y agoSame with Inca roads.
- jccooper 6y agoApparently there's evidence for domesticated chickens appear Mohenjo-Daro by c2000 BCE. That may be the first paved road that a chicken crossed. There would have been plenty of dirt paths all over the world well before the advent of the chicken, and I shouldn't be surprised at all to find a timber trackway in east Asia 4000 BCE or earlier. (There's one in Britain from that time.)