Although previous studies have pointed to chicken as the first human-bred birds, 7000-year-old goose bones uncovered from a Stone Age village in eastern China hint that geese may have been the first birds domesticated by humans.

Although previous studies have pointed to chicken as the first human-bred birds, 7000-year-old goose bones uncovered from a Stone Age village in eastern China hint that geese may have been the first birds domesticated by humans.