Mice shared our homes even before farming

• Autores: Sam Wong
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3119, 2017, pág. 9
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The close relationship between house mice and humans began in the earliest settlements about 15,000 years ago--before the advent of farming that made the cops such a draw for the rodents. Lior Weissbrod at the University of Haifa, Israel and his team collected 272 mouse teeth from 14 archaeological sites in Israel dating from 200,000 to 10,000 years ago. From these, they identified two species: the house mouse and its short-tailed relative, the Macedonian mouse. The house mouse first appears in the homes they looked at about 15,000 years ago, displacing the short-tailed mouse. At that time, people called the Natufians started to settle in fixed locations, living in stone houses with hearths and burying their dead.