{"id":874,"date":"2004-04-13T02:41:51","date_gmt":"2004-04-13T02:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=874"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:32:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:32:59","slug":"evidence-for-first-pet-cats-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=874","title":{"rendered":"evidence for first pet cats discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Researchers believe they have found the remains of  the earliest known pet cat. Jean-Denis Vigne of the CNRS-Museum  National d&#8217;Histoire Naturelle in Paris and colleagues report in the  April 9 <em>Science<\/em> that they have discovered a human and a cat buried in  close proximity in a Stone Age village on the Mediterranean island of  Cyprus. The find demonstrates &#8220;that a close relation had developed by  9,500 years ago&#8221; between human and feline, thousands of years before the  ancient Egyptians were generally believed to have domesticated the cat.  The human grave contained rich offerings of polished stones, axes, and  flint tools, and lay nearby a small pit with 24 sea shells. The cat was  buried just 16 inches away from the human. The 8-month-old animal&#8217;s  skeleton was intact and examination showed that the small grave had been  dug deliberately. The authors write, &#8220;The burial of a complete cat  without any butchering reminds us of human burials and emphasizes the  animal as an individual.&#8221; Vigne added in a press release, &#8220;The  association of this burial with both the sea shells and the cat grave  strengthens the idea of a special burial indicating a strong  relationship between cats and human beings. Possibly tamed cats were  devoted to special activities or special human individuals in the  village.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Discoveries column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 4\/13\/2004.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers believe they have found the remains of the earliest known pet cat. Jean-Denis Vigne of the CNRS-Museum National d&#8217;Histoire Naturelle in Paris and colleagues report in the April 9 Science that they have discovered a human and a cat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=874\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}