Fig. 2: A compilation of evidence for ancient chickens in Central Asia.

Including: SEM images of a Bash Tepa egg shell, emphasizing morphologically distinct breathing pores at magnifications ×30 (a), ×150 (b), ×750 (e, f). c A ceramic egg with clay balls from Bukhara dating between the tenth and twelfth centuries AD; d the Sophytes coin from Bactria in 300 BC (This image is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sophytes_hemidrachm.jpg Attribution: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com); g a fragment of an ossuary from Bash Tepa dating to the last centuries BC, with an apparent chicken on the top; whole examples of similar funerary urns have been identified at other sites in Central Asia; and (h) a selection of eggshells from the Bukhara site, showing color (essentially all white) and burning, which was evident on many of the shells.