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Ancient DNA Chronicles 11,000 Years of Genetic Ties Linking Sheep and Humanity The Role of Sheep in Human History Sheep have been essential to human existence for over 11,000 years offering protein-rich milk, warm wool and a reliable meat source. Decoding the Prehistoric History of Sheep An international team of geneticists from Trinity College Dublin and zooarchaeologists from LMU Munich and SNSB has decoded the prehistoric cultural history of this species, analyzing 118 genomes from archaeological bones spanning 12,000 years from Mongolia to Ireland. Major Findings Published in Science The discoveries have been officially published in Science . Early Sheep-Herding Practice in Aşıklı Höyü k The earliest sheep-herding village in the study,  Aşıklı Höyü k in central T ürkiye, contains genomes that appear ancestral to later populations in the region supporting an origin linked to the capture of wild mouflon over 11,000 eyars ago in the western part of the northern Fertile Crescent. ...