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The Origins of Jungle Fowl
In early Southeast Asian sites, you'll see partial or even a whole skeleton of adult chickens that are placed in human graves and show no sign of butchering. In Europe, similarly, several of the earliest chickens, around 50 BC to 100 AD, were buried in human graves. And one grave chicken in Europe actually showed evidence of a healed leg fracture. Also, men were often buried with roosters and women with heads,. But it kind of adds the sense that there was some some meaningful something.
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