Archaeological Excavation Unearths Evidence of Turkey Domestication 1,500 Years Ago
The turkeys we’ll be sitting down to eat on Thursday have a history that goes way back. Archaeologists have unearthed a clutch of domesticated turkey eggs used as a ritual offering 1,500 years ago in Oaxaca, Mexico—some of the earliest evidence of turkey domestication. “Our research tells us that turkeys had been domesticated by […]