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The earliest domestic cat on the Silk Road
- bradknowles 6y agoThat we know of.
- jjulius 6y agoFrom the piece: >Thus, this small cat is not only the earliest known domestic cat on the Silk Road...
- njharman 6y agoAm I the only one who was confused by title. Thinking it was about illegal animalnsales on dark web?
- kanobo 6y agoI had to think for a couple seconds to figure out what you were referring to, but now I understand how you were confused! Maybe the title should be updated to include the date.
- 082349872349872 6y agoThe original silk road was a "dark web" by the standards of maritime nations, being an overland set of trade routes far from any coast. Oddly, WP[1] on the decline of the overland routes doesn't mention the invention of the carrack[2] and related navigational techniques as having allowed a blue-water seaborne alternative trade, which has pretty much been the dominant pattern ever since. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road#Decline_and_disintegration_(15th_century) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road#Decline_and_disinteg... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrack
- RIMR 6y agoCryptokitties, but you're buying cats on the Internet with Bitcoin.
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- tus88 6y agoThe world needs more of this kind of important research.
- tuatoru 6y agoYeah, you get domesticated cats where there are grain crops, but not with nomadic herding. So this kind of thing provides information about the time of the transition from pastoral to agrarian societies.
- microtherion 6y ago> Yeah, you get domesticated cats where there are grain crops Right. You need grain crops to make cheezburgers, after all.
- bredren 6y agoInteresting to read all of the methods for determining the health of the cat at the time of death. Sadly, the "pathologies in the skeleton suggest that the cat from Dzhankent had a physically challenging life." The good news is that people cared about this cat, "They carefully cared for and tended to this animal throughout its life, providing high quality food and medical care." That said, the funeral for the animal was "expedient" in that it was basically left in a dump or "midden" (new word to me) at the end. It is some comfort realizing how entirely human it is to care for cats. Though, it is also possible cat toxoplasma has just been incredibly effective.
- KONAir 6y agoA tiny lion defending your foodstock didn't need an infection whispering into pysche to be loved :3 Edit: also consider the entertainment they provide.
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