Centers of Animal Domestication

Base map from Figure 1 in “Eastern North America as an Independent Center of Plant Domestication,” by Bruce D. Smith. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, vol. 103, no. 33: 12223–12228. Copyright 2006 by National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A.

Information on animal domestication locations and dates from various Wikipedia sources. For more on animal domestication, see Documenting Domestication: New Genetic and Archaeological Paradigms, edited by Melinda A. Zeder, Daniel Bradley, Eve Emshwiller, and Bruce D. Smith, and published in 2006 by the University of California Press, Berkeley.

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