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'''Domestication of Plants and Animals'''
'''Domestication of plants and animals'''


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Article purpose:


* Domestication of plants and animals as transition from Paleolithic to Neolithic
* domestication of plants and animals as transition from Paleolithic to Neolithic
* Sedentary lifestyle as preceding and not necessarily the result of that transition from paleolithic to neolithic
* sedentary lifestyle as preceding and not necessarily the result of that transition from paleolithic to neolithic
* Domestication across time and space, including
* domestication across time and space, including
** dogs
** dogs
** horses
** horses
** grasses
** grasses
** tubers
** tubers (enlarged, fleshy stem, usually underground of plants such as carrots, potatoes, yams)


todo:  
todo:  
> see Lil J p. 236 on 3 advantages of Fertile Crescent
 
* see Lil J p. 236 on 3 advantages of Fertile Crescent
* break into separate articles for plants and animals
 
== domestication etymology ==
 
* "domestication"
** = act of taming, breeding, controlling plants and animals
** from ''domestic'' ("or or for the house") +  ''-ation'' (making of)
*** = making something of the house (home)
*** from Latin ''domus for house, household, home''
**** from [[PIE proto-Indo-European language|PIE]] '''*dem-''' meaning the same
* definitions and uses of the word "domestic"
** ''domestic'' (noun)
*** a person who works in a house or home, generally for cleaning, cooking, child care
*** a locally or nationally made product (not made overseas)
** ''domestic'' (adj)
*** related to the household
**** as in "domestic chores" or "domestic life"
*** related, from, or made in a country
**** as in "the domestic economy" or "domestic production"
*** an animal kept in a house
* ''domesticated''
** past participle adjective
** = "having been tamed"
*** generally for animals
** or having been brought into a home or household
 
== domestication origins timeline ==
 
 
domestication of animals
 
domestication of plants