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# 📎 Topic: Domestication
> a multi-generational relationship in which one group of organisms (e.g. humanity) assumes a significant degree of influence over the reproduction and care of another group (e.g. sheep) to secure a more predictable supply of resources (e.g. milk and wool) from that second group.
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## WIP
- [[Creature Creation From the Taming Of]]
# Products
## Notes
- [[domestication timeline]] - a timeline of when major crops were first domesticated in various locations.
- [[textiles]] — an index of different textiles, including linen, cotton, and silk, that humans acquired as a result of domestication.
- [[many useful animals were domesticated for their meat first]]
- [[climate change requires action regardless of cause]] discusses how climate change led to the domestication of the horse.
- [[domestication markers indicate new methods not domestication date]]
- [[plants and animals were domesticated concurrently]]
- [[gourd domestication]] – gourds were probably the first “container” plant domesticated.
- [[ants domesticated aphids]]
- domesticated [[palms]]
## Articles
- [[Transporting Information]] covers how domesticated species were used to send messages in low-tech societies, e.g. pigeons, dogs, and messengers on horseback.
- [[2021-03-31 5 SFF Novels That Shed Light on Obscure History (DRAFT)]] touches on how domestication led to the development of strict guest/host rules in the [[Yamnaya]] culture.
## Newsletters
- [[2020-07-27 Domestication]]
- [[2021-03-29 Agriculture]]
- [[2020-11-10 Pigs]] - pigs used to be farmed not just for their meat but their lard.
- [[2020-12-28 Spidersilk (DRAFT)]] - plausibility deep dive on whether or not it would be possible to herd giant (fantasy) spiders for their silk.
- [[2021-02-22 Wool]] - wool comes from a variety of domesticated animals, not just sheep.
- [[2020-11-30 Onagers]] - onagers are hard to domesticate because they're smart and able to independently reason better than horses.
# References
## Literature Notes
- [[The Horse The Wheel And Language by David Anthony]] goes into deep detail about how the horse was domesticated and what the impacts of this were.
- [[The Civilizations of Africa by Christopher Ehret#ch03 Culture and Technology in Africa]] goes into a lot of detail about the domestication of cattle and how that led to major social changes.
- [[Human-Animal Entanglements in the Neolithic]] covers early domestication, mixed economies, and changing relationships with animals in stone-age Turkey.
- [[The Origins of Agriculture in the Near East]] covers the domestication of plants in the Levant and also has a lot of important "updates" about how we identify whether animals have been domesticated.
## In the Wild
- [History Magazine - The Impact of the Potato](https://www.history-magazine.com/potato.html)
- [great roundup on why it's hard to domesticate certain animals](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/lyraqg/why_didnt_any_south_american_natives_domesticate/)
- [Animal Domestication: A Brief Overview | IntechOpen](https://www.intechopen.com/books/animal-domestication/animal-domestication-a-brief-overview)
- a nice overview of [the history of the domestication and cultivation of rice](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/u07j1r/why_did_east_asian_cultures_grow_wheat_but/) that pairs well with [[Tamed by Alice Roberts]].
- This article about [the origins of the domestic blueberry](https://daily.jstor.org/delicious-origins-of-domesticated-blueberry/) has an [associated HackerNews discussion](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31395921) that might be useful. Husband sent it to me.