Re: [tied] The cat domestication happened more than 100,000 years

It seems that they didn't have cats. I don't think
domestic cats left the Middle East until Classic
Greco-Roman period
but there is
*bhel- (vel sim) whichi may have given root to feles
and (remotely)possibly the root of Hindu bhili (sp?)
but it gave way to cattus in Latin, which I think was
picked up from Libyan, and it usually related to
Nubian qadus (sp?) And *bhel- refers to various
cat-like vermin eating critters
Greek has ailuros < ?
Given that the Asian wildcat was domesticated, it
would be interesting to see what the AA forms are.
Isn't Egyptian *mau (vel sim)? What are the
Berber/Tamazight and Semitic forms?
Given their proximity, Caucasus words may shed some
light



--- alexandru_mg3 <alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:

>
> Maybe to review the PIE words for cat? and their
> origins?
>
>
>

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6251434.stm

>
> "[..]
> At least five female ancestors from the region gave
> rise to all the
> domestic cats alive today, scientists believe.
>
> The earliest archaeological evidence of cat
> domestication dates back
> 9,500 years, when cats were thought to have lived
> alongside humans in
> settlement sites in Cyprus.
>
> However, the new results show the house cat lineage
> is far older.
> Ancestors of domestic cats are now thought to have
> broken away from
> their wild relatives and started living with humans
> as early as
> 130,000 years ago.
>
> The moggy's ancestor may have been like this wild
> example
> The researchers focused on DNA in the mitochondria,
> the power plants
> of cells which supply energy and have their own
> genetic material.
>
> Comparison of the genetic sequences enabled
> researchers to determine
> the relationships between different cat lineages.
>
> The scientists found the cats fell into distinctive
> genetic "clades",
> or groups.
>
> The results show that, apart from accidental
> cross-breeding, European
> wildcats are not part of the domestic moggy's family
> tree.
>
> Neither are the Central Asian wildcat, the Southern
> African wildcat,
> or the Chinese desert cat.
>
> But domestic cats formed a clade with some wildcats
> from the Middle
> East, suggesting that today's moggy stems from the
> wild felines of
> this region.
> [..]
> "
>
>
>

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