The pig was a domesticated animal of the primitive cave-dwellers of Gezer, who appear to have offered swine in sacrifice, but pig-bones are rarely found in the Semitic strata.
As to birds, it is doubtful whether they had any domesticated ones before the Babylonian Exile.
The domesticated hen, traveling by way of the Black Sea, reached Asia Minor as early as the eighth century B.
From India the hen was domesticated eastward to China, and westward to Persia.
Thus far I cannot see anything to stumble over, when we remember all that has been said upon the conventional signs which are used by the more intelligent of our domesticated animals, and even by talking birds.
They had not as yet subdued and domesticated any animal so as to profit by its strength, or to ensure by its means a constant supply of food.
Epoch of domesticated existing animals (or the { polished-stone epoch).
The epoch of domesticated existing animals (or the polished-stone epoch).
The sheep, the ox, and other ruminants were converted into domesticated cattle, capable of insuring a constant supply of food.
But a "dynamic theory of history" is no proper inhabitant of autobiography, and "the larger synthesis" is not yet so domesticated as the plebeian idea of God.
Every one is now more or less familiar with the Freudian censor, the domesticated tribal agent whose function it seems to be to enforce the tribal scruples and superstitions--to keep personal impulse where the tribe thinks it belongs.
We find it widely prevalent among the American aborigines, who possessed no domesticatedanimal whatever except the dog, and the dog, as was above observed, was never tamed at all, but domesticated itself at the very dawn of prehistoric times.
Game animals have never been domesticated and utilized for the purpose of supplying milk and drawing the plough.
The popular notion would seem to be that man felt the need of such a companion, and therefore domesticated the dog.
Both of these will claim much attention, but very inadequate results will be obtained until after you have tamed and domesticated the various species.
Many of our animals are domesticated and trained to do light services, but as for servants of our own flesh and blood, no such class exists.
Let us now turn to domesticated animals, and inquire how varieties produced among them are affected by the principles here enunciated.
Yet in many of these creatures there seems to be no inherent tendency to avoid white, for directly they aredomesticated white varieties arise, and appear to thrive as well as others.
There is not a single domesticated species which does not, naturally, live in society.
There are, therefore, amongst the mammalia, species which form real societies; and it is from these alone that man takes all domesticated animals.
The using of a common nest never occurs among these birds in a wild state, neither is it of so frequent occurrence among domesticated turkeys as to have formed an instinctive habit.
Now and then a blue pigeon, like the ancestral form, crops up in a pure breed of domesticated birds.
While still nomads and addicted to hunting, they have domesticated cattle and sheep and become essentially a herding people, though mentally the lowest race of herders on the face of the earth.
And evidences of reasoning out some subject for themselves now and then appear in the domesticated species; but these are rare instances, not frequent acts as in the case of the apes.
The ape is especially notable for its tendency to attempt new acts of itself, not waiting to be taught, as in the case of other domesticated animals.
Now it is not improbable that Anubis may have typified the prehistoric half-domesticated jackal, or early type of dog that was supposed to guide the wanderer through the underworld.
At this period the domesticated horse was introduced, and its Babylonian name, “the ass of the East”, is an indication whence it came.
Indeed, as is pointed out in Chapter V, various ancient peoples offered up this domesticated and historic animal.
The Mongolian Buriats in the vicinity of Lake Baikal, Siberia, are the latest surviving sacrificers of the domesticated animal.
There can be no question but that others of these species than the few that have been domesticated will yield to improvement under cultivation and furnish refreshing fruits.
The most important fact to be established, however, is that this cherry has long grown spontaneously over a widely extended territory and may, therefore, have been domesticated in several widely separated regions.
Yet out of all of this wealth of raw material only Prunus tomentosa has been truly domesticated as an esculent though possibly a score of these species are well-known ornamentals.
The flesh is tender, juicy and, while astringent as commonly found, plants bearing aromatic and very palatable cherries are often found growing wild while some of the domesticated plants bear very well-flavored fruits.
Though probably domesticated as long ago as any other of the tree-fruits, the cherry is now most of all like its wild progenitors.
Whether one or both of the two cherries were domesticated by the Greeks, beginning with their civilization, or whether cultivated cherries came to Greece from Asia Minor, is not now known.
The monkey, which had become domesticatedin the house, leaped nimbly upon her knee, and looked up in her face.
This was the commencement of their former intimacy, and before night Grace was domesticated in her uncle's house.
I was merely looking for the account of Sir George Templemore's family; it is awkward to be domesticatedwith one, of whose family we are utterly ignorant.
Wheat and barley were perhaps first domesticated in this part of the world.
THE COW The cow also was domesticated at a remote period.
They domesticatedthe dog and the llama of the Andes.
The plantsdomesticated in the New World were not numerous.
The domesticated horse does not appear in Egypt and western Asia much before 1500 B.
After the Mohammedan conquest things went from bad to worse; and from the tenth century until the year 1846, plague had been domesticated on the soil of Egypt.
When the bubo-plague came to be domesticated in English soil more than a century later, the disposal of the dead became a sanitary question of obvious importance.
We are, however, for the sake of argument, willing to admit all the examples, and all he claims with regard to the origin of endless varieties in domesticated animals.
The owner of domesticated deer can not legally kill his animals except in open season.
Safeguards against the destruction and sale of wild deer in place of domesticated deer are not difficult to enforce.
Occasionally they will pay a visit to the poultry house, for like most animals of the weasel family, they have a decided liking for the domesticated birds.
The date of its introduction as a domesticated species into Europe and elsewhere does not appear to have been recorded, but doubtless dates back to soon after the Spanish conquests in America.
The common guinea-fowl (Numida meleagris) is the best known, and in its wild state differs very little from the domesticated variety.
The guinea-fowl is truly a native of Africa--though it is now domesticated in almost every country in the world, and has become a common inhabitant of the farm-yard.
The alpaca, like its cousin, the llama, was probably domesticated by the early Peruvians from the wild guanaco, largest of the camels of the New World.
It is claimed that the sunccas, as well as two other varieties, were domesticated by the Incas.
