Animal Husbandry
Systematic care, breeding, and raising of livestock for meat, milk, wool, and labor.
Core metadata
- ID: animal_husbandry
- Era: Ancient
- First known date: -9500 (millennium)
- Region: Southwest Asia and later independent pastoral regions
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: established
Prerequisites
Dependents
- Advanced Textile Dyes (Tyrian Purple) (advanced_textile_dyes_tyrian_purple)
- Animal-Drawn Plows (animal_drawn_plows)
- Animal-Powered Threshing (animal_powered_threshing)
- Beekeeping (apis_mellifera_domestication_beekeeping)
- Cheese and Yogurt Making (cheese_and_yogurt_making)
- Circus & Chariot Racing (circus_chariot_racing)
- Crop Rotation (Three-Field System) (crop_rotation_three_field)
- Early Veterinary Medicine (early_veterinary_medicine)
- Fermented Dairy Products (fermented_dairy_products)
- Feudalism (feudalism)
- Granary Pest Control (granary_pest_control)
- Heavy Draft Plowing (heavy_draft_plowing)
- Heavy Plow (Mouldboard Plow) (heavy_plow_mouldboard)
- Hide Glue Production (hide_glue_production)
- Horse Collar (horse_collar)
- Horse Shoes (horse_shoes)
- Horseback Riding (horseback_riding)
- Leather Tanning (leather_tanning)
- Logistics & Supply Lines (logistics_supply_lines)
- Oil Lamps (oil_lamps)
- Papyrus & Parchment Writing Surfaces (paper_making_papyrus_parchment)
- Pastoralism (pastoralism)
- Plow (plow)
- Selective Animal Breeding (selective_animal_breeding)
- Basic Soap Making (soap_making_basic)
- Textiles & Weaving (textiles_weaving)
- Torsion Springs (torsion_springs)
- Wheeled Vehicles (wheeled_vehicles)
Fields
Field lanes
- Agriculture & Food Systems: Foundations
Node sources
- Pace and process in the emergence of animal husbandry in Neolithic Southwest Asia (Bioarchaeology of the Near East, 2014, review) • Supports: node, maturity
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 2
- Average edge confidence: 69%
- Prerequisite sources: 2
- review: 2
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early Animal Domestication (animal_domestication) | required | 82% | review | Animal husbandry is scoped to stock-keeping and livestock care, which requires domesticated or managed animals rather than wild prey alone. |
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| Agriculture (agriculture) | common_dependency | 55% | review | Early herding spread through Neolithic food-production systems, but plant agriculture is contextual rather than a strict technical prerequisite for livestock husbandry. |
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