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Students will understand the history of companion animals and the meaning of domestication. Students will learn why certain animals were domesticated and how that has changed and benefited our civilization.
This science worksheet guides students through reading an article to learn more about the animal domestication timeline, animal domestication definition, animal domestication history, and why is domestication important.
- Dynamic Earth Learning
Animal husbandry is commonly defined as a branch of agriculture dealing with the domestication, breeding, and rearing of animals for various purposes including labor (as in the case of large animals), a food source, protection, and companionship (as with dogs, primarily), and a source of material goods such as hides and bones, used for clothing ...
- Joshua J. Mark
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- Pathways to Domestication
- Ancient Domestication
- Domestication & Order
- Conclusion
The English word 'domestication' comes from the Latin domesticus referring to the home ("belonging to the house") while husbandrymeans "to care for" or "manage prudently," and, applied to animals, is the care for, breeding, and management of formerly wild species of animals by human beings. It is thought that the domestication of animals was encour...
As Zeder notes, the path to domestication neither did always proceed quickly nor was the sedentary, agrarian lifestyle instantly embraced by hunter-gatherer communities. The evolution from nomadic hunters to sedentary farmers and animal breeders was a slow process. Scholar Marc van de Mieroop comments: In Mesopotamia, the domestication of plants an...
In Mesopotamia, Egypt, and other civilizations, the gods were associated with the establishment of order. In time, the domestication of animals seems to have acquired the same meaning. Humans, as co-workers with the gods in maintaining the ordered world, were doing their part in taming that which had been wild and bringing it under their control. W...
At the same time that dogs, and other animals, were associated with divinity, they were kept as a food source and understood primarily as utilities in the service of humanity. An interesting observation to come from the field of genomic archaeologyis how selective breeding of domesticated animals changed the various species. The floppy ears of rabb...
- Joshua J. Mark
This science worksheet guides students through reading an article to learn more about the animal domestication timeline, animal domestication definition, animal domestication history, and why is domestication important.
- Dynamic Earth Learning
Instead of placing pre-determined events onto a timeline, students use evidence and their own historical judgment to choose events that they then argue are the most significant for a global pattern in world history (e.g., the impact of technology and demography on people and the environment).
Excite your students about topics they will learn about in your world history class and help them understand how key topics fit together with this World History Timeline and Poster bundle! This set is designed for someone teaching a world history class that picks up after Ancient Civilizations, star...
