Posted on 04/26/2023 10:46:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Conclusive evidence of chicken breeding in the Yayoi period of Japan has been discovered from the Karako-Kagi site.
The chicken is one of the most common domesticated animals, with a current estimated population of over 33 billion individuals. They are reared for their meat and eggs, and may be kept as pets.
The chicken is believed to have been domesticated in Southeast Asia about 3500 years ago, following which they were carried to all corners of the world. The exact date of introduction of chicken breeding to Japan is under debate, as there are no historical records and archeological evidence is inconclusive.
Professor Masaki Eda at the Hokkaido University Museum led a team to uncover the earliest conclusive evidence of chicken breeding in Japan. The findings, which show chickens were bred in the Karako-Kagi site, a settlement from the Yayoi period [5th century BCE to around 2nd century BCE], were published in the journal Frontiers in Earth Sciences...
The Karako-Kagi site, in what is now Tawaramoto Town, Nara Prefecture, is considered to be a settlement that played the role of a leader of the Kinki region during the Yayoi period. There are multiple archeological digs in the area; one such dig, at the 58th research point, yielded ten phasianid bones, four of which belonged to juvenile birds.
The team used a technique called Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) to analyze the collagen in two of the juvenile phasianid bones. Previous work by Eda had shown that domestic chicken and Japanese wild pheasants had different ZooMS fingerprints; ZooMS revealed that both the two bones belonged to chickens. The collagen from one of the bones was also carbon dated to 381–204 BCE, corresponding to the middle Yayoi period.
(Excerpt) Read more at global.hokudai.ac.jp ...
In its simplest terms, chicken math is the addition to your flock in quantities and maybe even other species that are beyond what you originally planned.They’re so little and cute at first, but then we realize that chicks grow fast and need more space. These little ladies spent the winter growing out in a greenhouse.
How The Math Works
Perhaps you planned to have 6 birds but now somehow have 14, 22, 30. Or maybe you planned to only have chickens but have mastered advanced chicken math and now have ducks, rabbits, and a cow!
Funny thing is... this could be seen as the earliest form of machine learning (human brain) via positive reenforced repetitive tasking.
Literally how much of machine learning is done today.
“BCE means “Before the Christian Era”, right?”
It also means that “I’m a Leftist” so this story will be ‘safe’.
Best comment yet on “stupid acronym tricks”!!
I belive BCE refers to Before Current Era
“I belive BCE refers to Before Current Era”
That may be what they claim, but I’ll stick with my Leftist Dog Whistle definition.
So that’s where 1000-Year-Old eggs come from!....................
You are all neglecting the backstory behind the change.
There have been two competing brands of headache powders. The second one, Goody’s, disliked the fact that the first one, BC, was constantly receiving free publicity every time someone wrote about ancient history. So they pushed for the alteration to BCE, with the cover narrative that “Before Common Era” promoted equity and inclusion, in the hope that people studying history would stop thinking about Goody’s competition.
That is interesting.
My way is much less sophisticated. If they crow, they go to the freezer, except the special one rooster. As long as he doesn’t attack us, he gets to hang around 😁
BCE, just another way to deny Christ.
We started with chickens and added pigs and cows. But it took us a while.
Chicken Math — it’s like the leaven of the Kingdom.
We have 6 girls and haven’t expanded yet, but that’s not quite accurate because right behind their house we have a daily line-up of guests: deer dining with the wild ducks and turkeys and/or raccoons, squirrels, chipmunks, and songbirds galore foraging about.
Every day is a good show right from the windows.
Collect ‘em all!
And yet ... “Admiral Yamamoto’s Fried Chicken” restaurants never became a thing ...
BCE, just another way for a non-Christian news source to express time.
Near the end of his life, Yamamoto didn’t much care for things with wings. /rimshot
LOLOL!
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