Earliest domestic chickens
Rice and millet fields lure jungle fowl into human company
According to recent research, the earliest securely dated domestic chicken bones come from Thailand, around 1650–1250 BC. Red junglefowl were probably drawn to rice and millet fields, at the time Egypt's New Kingdom pharaohs ruled.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Oceania
- c. 1500 BC Emergence of the Lapita culture — same year
Alive at the time
- Hatshepsut (aged 7)