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Words related to domestication
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food-gathering
procuring food by hunting or fishing or the gathering of seeds, berries, or roots, rather than by the cultivation of plants or the domestication of animals; foraging. -
neolithic
(sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery and textiles: commonly thought to have begun c9000–8000 b.c. in the Middle East. Compare Mesolithic, Paleolithic. -
semidomesticated
living in a state of partial domestication. -
spirit cave
an archaeological site in Thailand that has produced evidence of very early plant domestication in Southeast Asia, dated c7000 b.c. -
thremmatology
the science of breeding or propagating animals and plants under domestication. -
yang-shao
of or designating a Neolithic culture of N China c5000–3000 b.c., characterized by dwellings with sunken floors, domestication of the pig, and a fine handmade pottery painted mainly in geometric designs of spirals and circles.