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According to Boessneck (1953) domestication started during the Neolithic (about 4,000 B.C.), and on the basis of reliefs, wall-paintings and bone remains the following list can be compiled. Neolithic sites at Faiyum, lower Egypt, and Tasa Badari yielded the dog, oxen and possibly goat and sheep and the pig.
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Rzóska, J. (1976). Appendix Domesticated Animals of Ancient Egypt. In: Rzóska, J. (eds) The Nile, Biology of an Ancient River. Monographiae Biologicae, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1563-9_8
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