In NAKTASHIF worlds:Gardens, farms and human-associated habitats
Approved version OWNER-REVIEW-20261108T090120981 · last approved 8 November 2026
Names from folk tradition, kept apart from the scientific names.
The oldest confirmed bones of domestic chickens were found at the site of Ban Non Wat in central Thailand and date to about 1650–1250 BCE, and chickens were not domesticated in the Indian subcontinent; they reached central China, South Asia and Mesopotamia only in the late second millennium BCE, and reached Ethiopia and Mediterranean Europe around 800 BCE.
The domestic chicken is the most numerous domestic animal in the world and descends mainly from the red junglefowl; a genetic study of 863 genomes indicates that the subspecies Gallus gallus spadiceus is the most likely ancestor of the domestic chicken.
