The Role Of Trash In The Agricultural Revolution

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Trash played a huge role in the agricultural revolution. Trash has been attributed to pastoralization of animals and the beginning of farming. Dogs were the first animals domesticated, domesticated from wolves. Their domestication began with people throwing their trash and scraps out and the more docile wolves would come up and eat the scraps. Eventually as the wolves would grow more and more comfortable around humans and they would come close into humans living areas. Eventually after a few generations, wolves could be completely domesticated and used for human benefit. From dogs, humans were then able to domesticate goats, sheeps, pigs, aurochs, and horses. These animals were now used for food, hides, bones, and work. Not only did trash lead

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