{"id":15041,"date":"2025-08-22T21:58:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T01:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=15041"},"modified":"2025-08-22T21:58:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T01:58:39","slug":"13000-years-later-still-locked-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/13000-years-later-still-locked-up\/","title":{"rendered":"13,000 years later, still locked up"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15042\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15042\" style=\"width: 1038px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/240815-MV-fair-sheep.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/240815-MV-fair-sheep.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1038\" height=\"695\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15042\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/240815-MV-fair-sheep.jpg 1038w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/240815-MV-fair-sheep-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/240815-MV-fair-sheep-1024x686.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/240815-MV-fair-sheep-768x514.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheep were among the first animals domesticated by humans, with the process beginning between 11,000 and 8,000 BCE in Mesopotamia (part of the Fertile Crescent in the Near East).<br \/>This domestication originated from wild mouflon ancestors, primarily for meat, milk, and skins, with later selection for woolly traits emerging around 6000 BCE.<br \/>Genetic and archaeological evidence, including findings from sites like A\u015f\u0131kl\u0131 H\u00f6y\u00fck in central Turkey, supports an initial domestication over 11,000 years ago.<br \/>There is also evidence of possible independent domestication around 7000 BCE in regions like Mehrgarh in South Asia.<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agrarian","category-strange-land"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15043,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15041\/revisions\/15043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}