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How ancient cats lived on the brink of domestication

arstechnica.com

Nitrogen isotope ratios in the bones of six cats from Neolithic Poland suggest that these ancient cats hunted rodents that ate human farmers' crops, but they didn't eat quite the same diet as local people and their trusty domestic dogs. But when Krajcarz and her colleagues compared the cats to ancient people and domestic dogs from nearby settlements, like Bronocice, they found that people and their dogs had even higher nitrogen-15 levels than cats.

The earliest cat remains found in human settlements date to the Roman period in Poland, 3,000 years later, and their nitrogen-15 levels are much closer to humans and dogs. The European wildcat bones Krajcarz and her colleagues looked at had nitrogen-15 levels similar to the Near Eastern cats but spread across a wider range.

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