Domestication thumb|Male wild boar-domestic pig hybrid With the exception of domestic pigs in Timor and Papua New Guinea (which appear to be of Sulawesi warty pig stock), the wild boar is the ancestor of most pig breeds.The related collared peccary (Dicotyles tajacu) has been domesticated in the New World. "Commercial Farming of Collared Peccary: A Large-scale Commercial Farming of Collared Peccary (Tayassu tajacu) in North-eastern Brazil", 2007-4-30. Archaeological evidence suggests that pigs were domesticated from wild boar as early as 13,000–12,700 BCE in the Near East in the Tigris Basin, being managed in the wild in a way similar to the way they are managed by some modern New Guineans.Rosenberg M, Nesbitt R, Redding RW, Peasnall BL (1998). Hallan Çemi, pig husbandry, and post-Pleistocene adaptations along the Taurus-Zagros Arc (Turkey) . Paléorient, 24(1):25–41. Remains of pigs have been dated to earlier than 11,400 BCE in Cyprus. Those animals must have been introduced from the mainland, which suggests domestication in the adjacent mainland by then. There was also a separate domestication in China, which took place about 8,000 years ago.
Domestication thumb|Male wild boar-domestic pig hybrid With the exception of domestic pigs in Timor and Papua New Guinea (which appear to be of Sulawesi warty pig stock), the wild boar is the ancestor of most p?ig breeds.The related collared peccary (Dicotyles tajacu) has been domesticated in t?he New World. "Commercial Farming of Collared Peccary: A Large-scale Commercial Farming of Collared Peccary (Tayassu tajacu) in North-eastern Brazil", 2007-4-30. Archaeological evidence suggests that pigs were domesticated from wild boar as early as 13000–12,700 BCE in the Near East in the Tigris Basin, being managed in the wild in a way similar to the way? they are managed by some modern New Guineans.Rosenberg M, Nesbitt R, Redding RW, Peasnall BL (1998). Hallan Çemi, pig husbandry, and post-Ple,istocene adaptations along the Taurus-Zagros Arc (Turkey) . Paléorient, 24(1):25–41. Remains of pigs have been dated to earlier than 11,400 BCE in Cyprus. Those animals must have been introduced ,from the mainland, which suggests domestication in th?e adjacent mainland by then. There was also a separate domestication in China, which took place about 8,000 years ago.