An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c6.s1.3

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Definite archaeozoological evidence of domestication first occurs in the Mesolithic [4.5; 15.1.5,6]. By 6000 B.C. the dog was companion to man, both in n. Europe and the Near East. There is, however, evidence which might prove the domestication of the dog during the Upper Palaeolithic in Russia (Narr, 1959). The domesticated sheep and goat are recorded both in parts of n.-w. Europe (*c.* 4000 B.C.) and the Near East (*c.* 6710 B.C.).