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The History of Chicken Bones
Until recently, it was like fairly widely accepted that people were breeding jugglefowl in Southeast Asia. But according to the new analysis, the oldest bones of a definite domesticated chicken were found in central Thailand. The researchers think that domestication could have started when a few of these jungle fowl were like tempted down from the trees because there was suddenly all of this grain around and up for grabs.
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