Scientists on Monday presented fresh evidence linking the earliest domestication of chicken to a 3,500-year-old site in Thailand, ruling out south India or northern China as the likely sites of origin as suggested by previous studies. The new findings also note that poultry farming in South Asia was a post-Harappan development and that the domestication of chickens took place
Chickens were domesticated later than we thought, but probably not for their meat. Instead, they may have acted as early alarm systems or spiritual guides to the afterlife