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‘Their story is our story’: Pigeons and humans, 3,500 years together
Key takeaways
- Now, research published on Thursday has revealed that the humble birds were first domesticated 3,500 years ago, meaning they have been enmeshed in our lives for nearly a millennium longer than previously thought.
- “Humans forgetting about pigeons happened relatively recently in human history,” Anderson Carter, a bio-archaeologist at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, told AFP.
- Pigeons were still a useful part of society as recently as the 19th and 20th centuries, explained the lead author of a new study in the journal Antiquity.
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Now, research published on Thursday has revealed that the humble birds were first domesticated 3,500 years ago, meaning they have been enmeshed in our lives for nearly a millennium longer than previously thought.
“Humans forgetting about pigeons happened relatively recently in human history,” Anderson Carter, a bio-archaeologist at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, told AFP.
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