Cattle may also have been introduced in South India, but it has been suggested that they may have been indigenously domestications in the region. While humped zebu cattle were certainly domesticated in Baluchistan by c.6000 B.C., what remains unclear is whether additional domesticated of this species took place elsewhere in the subcontinent during Holocere. Archaeozoological works have suggested the existence of domesticated cattle remains from Mesolithic contexts in Bhimbetka and Adamgarh. Sheep and goat occur at Neolithic sites throughout the Southern Deccan, despite the fact that they have no wild ancestors in the area. These species, however, had a much longer history in the North-Western part of the subcontinent. They must have been introduced to the south by the mid-third millennium B.C.
Domestication of the humped zebu cattle is related to:
