Recent archaeological digs have uncovered more than 20 round buildings in what is believed to be Cyprus’ earliest known village, dating as as the 9th millennium BC, the east Mediterranean island’s Department of Antiquities said Tuesday. The department said in a statement that excavations, which concluded last month in the Ayios Tychonas-Klimonas area near Cyprus’ southern coast, also found domestic dogs and cats had already been introduced to Cyprus when the village was active 11,200 to 10,600 years ago. It said villagers hunted small wild boar and birds, but didn’t produce pottery.
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