Major corridor of Silk Road already home to high-mountain herders over 4,000 years ago

(Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History) Using ancient proteins and DNA recovered from tiny pieces of animal bone, archaeologists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH) and the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography (IAET) at the Russian Academy of Sciences-Siberia have discovered evidence that domestic animals -- cattle, sheep, and goat -- made their way into the high mountain corridors of southern Kyrgyzstan more than four millennia ago, as published in a study in PLOS ONE.

from EurekAlert! - Archaeology https://ift.tt/2SygqQJ