ATLANTA - Cats apparently came in from the cold earlier in the course of human events than anyone suspected. A cat skeleton discovered alongside an ancient human grave on the ...

By the 4th century BCE, domestic cats had reached Britain. At Gussage All Saints, archaeologists uncovered five kitten skeletons buried together, likely a deliberate human act.

Inbreeding with domestic cats has become a serious threat to Afro-Asiatic wildcat conservation. ... This theory was mainly based on a complete cat skeleton, dated to roughly 7500 BCE, ...

At that moment, cats became more like other domestic animals. But there is still one important difference: time. Humans have been intermittently guiding cat breeding for less than 1,000 years.

The oldest known evidence of people keeping cats as pets may have been found by archaeologists. The discovery of a cat buried with what could be its owner in a Neolithic grave on Cyprus suggests ...

Cats Domesticated Themselves, Ancient DNA Shows. A comprehensive survey of cat genes suggests that even after felines wandered into our lives, they remained largely unchanged for thousands of years.

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