The First FarmersEconomy & Trade Sheep and goats domesticated c. 9,000 BCEMajor Herding in the Zagros Mountains provides meat, milk, wool and hides. ▲ MattersSaveShareTrace roots Longest chain: The Big Bang → First stars ignite → Supernovae seed heavy elements → The Sun forms → Earth forms → First oceans → First life → Photosynthesis evolves → Great Oxidation Event → Complex cells (eukaryotes) → Multicellular life → First animals → Cambrian Explosion → First vertebrates → Jawed fish → Fish walk onto land → The amniotic egg → The Great Dying → Dinosaurs appear → Asteroid ends the dinosaurs → Early primates → Apes split from monkeys → Human line splits from chimpanzees → Walking upright → First stone tools → Genus Homo appears → Homo erectus → Control of fire → Habitual fire and cooking → Homo sapiens appears → Complex language → Natufian villages → Oldest known bread → Agriculture begins → Sheep and goats domesticated Community notesLoading notes… Learn more ranked by votesDocumentpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govThe initial domestication of goats in the Zagros mountains 10,000 years ago (Zeder and Hesse, Science 2000) ↗Editor's pickBookMelinda A. Zeder et al. (eds.)Documenting Domestication ↗Editor's pickVideoSearch on YouTubedomestication of sheep and goats ↗Editor's pick