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Donkey Domestication

5000BCE
3000BCE

Neolithic peoples domesticated donkeys. The oldest known evidence of domesticated donkeys is in East Africa, over 7,000 years ago. This was 2,500 years before domesticated horses in the Western Steppe lands of Eurasia.


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