>>Ergo, domestication of cats must have been a pre-cursor to settled civilisation. <<
The more popular theory is that cats noticed that there were a lot of rats around grain bins, and moved in to take advantage of it. Which is to say, agriculture was the precursor (perhaps only by a few days) to cat "domestication".
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Date: 2018-02-18 06:31 pm (UTC)The more popular theory is that cats noticed that there were a lot of rats around grain bins, and moved in to take advantage of it. Which is to say, agriculture was the precursor (perhaps only by a few days) to cat "domestication".