ABSTRACT
The basis of the first large-scale domestication and for that matter the later ones as well, because the process did not cease to exist after the acquisition of the first wave of domestic animals was specialized hunting. However, the hunting of these animals was useful for man because in this way he could increase his biological knowledge, and he undoubtedly used it in Umm Dabaghiyah, keeping all five Neolithic domestic species, besides the hunting of herds of wild onagers and gazelles. The essence of domestication is the capture and taming by man of animals of a species with particular behavioural characteristics, their removal from their natural living area and breeding community, and their maintenance under controlled breeding conditions for mutual benefits. The result of domestication is the domesticated animal that first culturally and later morphologically differs from its wild form.
