The First FarmersEconomy & Trade Cattle domesticated c. 8,500 BCEMajor Wild aurochs are tamed in the Near East and South Asia. Cattle later pull plows and carts. ▲ MattersSaveShareTrace roots Longest chain: The Big Bang → First stars ignite → Supernovae seed heavy elements → The Sun forms → Earth forms → First oceans → First life → Photosynthesis evolves → Great Oxidation Event → Complex cells (eukaryotes) → Multicellular life → First animals → Cambrian Explosion → First vertebrates → Jawed fish → Fish walk onto land → The amniotic egg → The Great Dying → Dinosaurs appear → Asteroid ends the dinosaurs → Early primates → Apes split from monkeys → Human line splits from chimpanzees → Walking upright → First stone tools → Genus Homo appears → Homo erectus → Control of fire → Habitual fire and cooking → Homo sapiens appears → Complex language → Natufian villages → Oldest known bread → Agriculture begins → Sheep and goats domesticated → Cattle domesticated Community notesLoading notes… Learn more ranked by votesDocumentucl.ac.ukDNA traces cattle back to a small herd domesticated around 10,500 years ago (UCL) ↗Editor's pickBookLaurie Winn CarlsonCattle: An Informal Social History ↗Editor's pickBookMelinda A. Zeder et al. (eds.)Documenting Domestication ↗Editor's pickVideoSearch on YouTubedomestication of cattle from aurochs ↗Editor's pick