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There was great joy and honour when the Japanese capital Tokyo was selected as host of the 2020 Olympics. Now they would show that Japan was back on the world stage again after the economic crisis in the 1990s.

To trace the domestication of the goat, an international team of researchers have analysed 10,000 year-old goat bones from two sites in the Zagros Mountains in present-day western Iran. Using ancient DNA and zooarchaeological analyses the study, which is published today in PNAS, shows that these animals may represent the earliest known example of goat herding. Researchers from the Center for the Study of Early Agricultural Societies (CSEAS) at the University of Copenhagen contributed to the study.