Kahu-Jo-Darro holds 11 world records including the largest prehistoric animal domestication site, earliest fish farming, textile production, winemaking, turquoise craftsmanship, and cultivated soybeans. Dog skeletons in dedicated pits plus analyzed feces showing human-transmitted pinworms reveal remarkably close human-dog coexistence 7,500-9,000 years ago.
Kahu-Jo-Darro cited for 11 world records including earliest fish farming and pig domestication
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Key facts
- Kahu-Jo-Darro holds 11 world records including the largest prehistoric animal domestication site
- It features the world's earliest fish farming
- Earliest textile production, wine-making, turquoise craftsmanship, and musical instruments
- Birthplace of the earliest writing systems
- Archaeologists uncovered more than 1,000 relics and nearly 6,000 artifacts
- World's earliest cultivated soybeans found at the site
- Site dates to 7,500-9,000 years ago, a large-scale well-preserved Neolithic site with rich cultural deposits
- Earliest evidence of domestic pig farming in China was discovered at Kahu-Jo-Darro
- Dog skeletons in dedicated dog pits suggest dogs guarded homes in life and death
- Dog feces found in 1985 and a larger pile in 2001 during the seventh excavation confirmed a dog pen
- Analysis of dog feces revealed pinworm parasites transmitted by humans, indicating close human-dog coexistence
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