Did You Know . . .
that most recent research into the DNA of pigs as farm animals indicates that domesticated pigs came to Europe with immigrant Stone Age farmers from the Middle East? Other research results allow the assumption that domesticated European pigs are indeed descendants of European wild boar.
In any case within about 500 years of their introduction to Europe from the Middle East the immigrant pigs completely disappeared and were replaced by domesticated European wild boar.


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