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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute.
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2 .Cats and humans have been adopting each other for millennia.
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3 .Four-thousand-year-old Egyptian art provides evidence of cat domestication.
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4 .A 9,500-year-old grave in Cyprus revealed a wildcat near a human.
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5 .But the act of domestication in between those periods has been fuzzy in the archaeological record.
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6 .Now research from China fills in some of the gap.
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7 .In the remains of a 5,300-year-old agricultural village, scientists found eight bones that belonged to at least two cats.
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8 .The date is 3,000 years earlier than previous estimates of Chinese cat domestication.
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9 .The researchers analyzed human, cat and rodent bones.
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10 .The size the cats indicates domestication, as they're smaller than their wild European relatives.
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11 .Isotopes showed they'd all eaten a fair amount of millet.
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12 .One of the cats lived to a particularly old age, while the other ate less meat and more millet than a cat might prefer.
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13 .The research is in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences.
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14 .The scientists theorize the cats were attracted to rodents and grain in villages, and that people cared for the cats to help control the rodents.
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15 .Thus creating the mutually beneficial relationship that cats and people still enjoy.
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16 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber.
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