Nice clear and concise statement of the current thinking, based on "archaeological occurrences and the domestic status of chickens from ∼600 sites in 89 countries [were assessed] by combining zoogeographic, morphological, osteometric, stratigraphic, contextual, iconographic, and textual data" :
"Our results suggest that the first unambiguous domestic chicken bones are found at Neolithic Ban Non Wat in central Thailand dated to ∼1650 to 1250 BCE, and that chickens were not domesticated in the Indian Subcontinent. Chickens did not arrive in Central China, South Asia, or Mesopotamia until the late second millennium BCE, and in Ethiopia and Mediterranean Europe by ∼800 BCE." Peters et. al. The biocultural origins and dispersal of domestic chickens PNAS 2022 open access
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2121978119 (which is the paper summarised in the Science Org article that
@thistlewick linked to above).
I also note from the same paper that "Within the native range of red junglefowl, many Southeast Asian languages refer to chickens as “bamboo fowl,” given how readily they take advantage of cyclical bamboo mass flowering and seeding events", and the Chatsworth birds are depicted by what is clearly bamboo stems.
It wouldn't last a week as is.
This camera better be good the bloody thing is costing me money!
