Bayanmunkhiin Ehner, who lives in a ger camp with some 700
goats and sheep near Nomgon Soum in the Gobi Desert, keeps up with the affairs of her family and friends on Facebook — which she accesses on her smartphone — while monitoring prices for cashmere wool through the news she watches on her flat - screen TV.
The data highlighted shows that domesticated
sheep,
goats and cattle were first in the
Near East 10,500 years ago,
and arrived in Europe, Africa
and South Asia within a few millennia.