Research by archaeologists from Chinese and US institutes suggests that pigs were already domesticated in southern China around 8,000 years ago.
The team, which included researchers from Dartmouth College and the Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, analysed two early Neolithic sites in the province’s Yangtze Delta region.
The study – published on June 9 in the prestigious international journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) – “is the first to…
