{"id":131046,"date":"2025-06-13T01:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T01:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131046"},"modified":"2025-06-13T01:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T01:00:11","slug":"pigs-may-have-been-domesticated-in-china-as-early-as-neolithic-era-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131046","title":{"rendered":"Pigs may have been domesticated in China as early as Neolithic era: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostResearch by archaeologists from Chinese and US institutes suggests that pigs were already domesticated in southern China around 8,000 years ago.<br \/>\nThe 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\u2019s Yangtze Delta region.<br \/>\nThe study \u2013 published on June 9 in the prestigious international journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) \u2013 \u201cis the first to&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3314173\/study-suggests-pigs-may-have-been-domesticated-china-early-neolithic?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostResearch by archaeologists from Chinese and US institutes suggests that pigs were already domesticated in southern China around 8,000 years ago. The team, which&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131046"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}