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  Tuesday  June 11  2002    07: 42 PM

Cats

DOMESTICATION
FROM WILD TO MILD

Around 4000 BCE, cattle breeders, plant gatherers, and seasonal cultivators began to settle and become farmers on the high ground at the foot of the desert plateau and on "turtle backs," or sandy ridges, in the Nile Delta, where the river breaks into tributaries before flowing into the Mediterranean. There, man's relationship with the cat in Egypt began.
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