From: Torsten
Message: 68469
Date: 2012-02-02
>Romans sacrificed pigs at the conclusion of pacts after peace negotiations, as described by Livy's History 1,24,4
> Pigs were used for sacrifice both in East Asia and Europe. If pigs
> came from East Asia (there is a genetic introgression in European
> pigs from East Asian pigs, which researches would really, really
> like to interpret as the result of imports of the last 200 years),
> http://www.genetics.org/content/154/4/1785.full
> either pig sacrifice was invented both places, or it came along with
> the animal itself. If so, terminology may have been borrowed.