Pigeons were most likely domesticated in the Mediterranean at least 2000–5000 years ago, and may have been domesticated earlier as a food source.

13 мар. 2023 г. · Pigeons (rock doves) were the predominant meat bird and religious sacrifice in the Middle East and Europe for millennia.

Wild rock doves, the ancestors of all domesticated pigeons, were the first bird species to be domesticated by humans. By the 1800s, pigeons were being used by ...

17 апр. 2017 г. · Some estimates put pigeon domestication closer to 10,000 years ago. Given the fragility of bird bones and their poor preservation in the fossil ...

3 дек. 2023 г. · First domesticated roughly 10,000 years ago in the Mediterranean region, the ancestors of the modern pigeon would more likely be nicknamed a “ ...

Ancient Egyptians began using pigeons for ceremonial and culinary purposes at least 4000 years ago, and later as harbingers of the progress of the Nile's annual ...

7 сент. 2024 г. · From Egyptian times the pigeon has been important as food. Its role as messenger has a long history. Today it is an important laboratory animal, ...

26 апр. 2019 г. · Historically pigeons are a human-dependent species, and they've been that way since people decided to capture and breed them thousands of years ago.

19 нояб. 2020 г. · Pigeons have carried love-letters and military dispatches, assisted fortune-tellers, and inspired cutthroat bird-racing subcultures.