ABSTRACT
"Domestication" refers to a becoming, a process set in time which causes living beings to go through different states, between the outside and the domus, between far and near, between predation and familiarity. It has a social and relational, but also technological and somatic impact on humans, which is often neglected but is, in fact, symptomatic of the fact that humans are just as much subject to the domesticatory interaction as animals and plants are. The archaeology of the island of Cyprus has revealed the intensity of the relations that may precede animal domestication. The pre-Neolithic hunter-gatherers who colonized the island brought on their boats wild boars which they released to the wild on the island and were then able to use as game, 1,000 years before domestic pigs made their appearance. Archaeologists have long since repudiated Childe's scenario which, nevertheless, retains its strong influence as a founding myth.
