7,000 Years Ago, Humans Tamed the Ass
donkey are a ubiquitous animate being of burden , and are on a regular basis apply to slog materials across long distances , just like they were in the ancient past . Now , a squad of geneticists has pinpointed exactly how ancient that past is : They believe they ’ve determined when and where the first domestic ass were domesticated . By looking at 238 donkey genomes—31 of which belong to ancient donkeys — the team identified a domestication event in East Africa that go steady to about 5,000 BCE , slightly earlier than the earliest archaeological grounds of domesticated donkey ....