The book Civilizations of the Ancient Near East states: “Recent research has suggested that the domestication of the camel took place in southeastern Arabia some time in the third millennium [B.C.E.].
सुरुवातीला कदाचित दूध, केस, कातडी आणि मांस या गोष्टींसाठीच या प्राण्यांचा उपयोग केला जात असावा.