By Tobias Carroll What was the first type of bird to be domesticated by humans? Given the ubiquity of it in diets all around the world, most people would likely answer, “chicken.” And — if the findings of a new scientific study prove accurate — they’d be wrong. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, focuses on a number of goose bones found in the village of Tianluoshan, which was settled 7,000 years ago in China’s Yangtze River Valley. The scientists believe that their findings reveal “an early stage of goose domestication at Tianluoshan.” The key to their…