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From Science in the News Weekly:
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Stone Age Cats May Have Been Household Pets, Grave Site Find Indicates
Dogs are still man's best friend, but new evidence unearthed on Cyprus suggests that cats were domesticated much earlier than previously believed. French archaeologists excavating a long-forgotten Stone Age village discovered the grave of an 8-month-old cat adjacent to that of a high-status villager. If this indicates a special relationship between them, it means that cats were domesticated at least 9,000 years ago, or some five millennia earlier than previous estimates based on Egyptian tombs.
Writing in the journal Science, the researchers describe evidence of a foraging lifestyle involving primitive storage and cultivation of grain, a circumstance that would likely have attracted mice and, with them, wild cats. The skeleton they discovered, 15 inches from its ostensible owner, is likely that of Felis silvestris lybica, a descendant of the African wild cats that are thought to be the ancestors of all modern domestic cats.
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Obviously the writer of this blurb has never lived with cats, since s/he suggests that the human may have been the "owner" of the cat . . .
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