Posted on 04/13/2023 9:22:51 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Humans have maintained a very close relationship with aurochs... since their beginnings, first by hunting them and then by breeding and selecting them. This extinct species of mammal is little known in the Peninsula because its skeletal remains are difficult to distinguish from bison. In fact, there have been references to the presence of "large bovids" in many sites because they cannot be differentiated. At a European level, there is also a lack of genetic data.
An international team of scientists... analysed the remains of B. primigenius from the Chan do Lindeiro cave (Lugo). These remains were found in a chasm together with the human fossils of the shepherdess of O Courel, "Elba", dated at around 9,000 years old. The aurochs analysed are not the oldest ones discovered, but they are the oldest ones whose mitochondrial DNA has been sequenced so far. Interestingly, although they were found together, they are genetically very different...
To extract information about the introduction of this livestock in Galicia, researchers sampled 18 cattle fossils of different ages from different Galician mountain caves, of which eleven were subjected to mitochondrial genome sequencing and phylogenetic analysis.
The study of the three aurochs revealed their kinship with aurochs from other parts of Europe... The results of the study indicate that settlers migrated to this region of Spain from Europe and introduced European cow breeds now common in Galicia...
In Italy, some researchers claim that the already domesticated cows had genetic contributions from local aurochs. The same holds for the British Isles. The contribution of local aurochs to cows is best observed in the nuclear DNA and was detected in some cases in northern European breeds.
In the north of the peninsula, the oldest domestic cows are about 7 to 6 thousand years old.
(Excerpt) Read more at eurekalert.org ...
Cattle domestication really did revolutionize our diet, society, helped transition us (ironically) into urban living, which led to all the thing we (well, most of us) take for granted, such as settled living, literacy, division of labor, standing armies...
Got off the trail a little there. Be sure to check out those udder topics about milk, cheese, and diet and cuisine generally.
That was only a grazing blow.
I read that the last one was killed, during WW1,in Eastern Europe, possibly Poland.
Fossils for sale:
https://timevaultgallery.com/aurochs-bos-primigenius-fossils-bones-teeth-for-sale/
That is an article written by Chat GPT or some other AI.
It’s all chopped up and dumped together like a sentence-salad plagiarized from somewhere else.
Articles written by AI should be required to inform the reader the article was not written by a human being.
“I read that the last one was killed, during WW1,in Eastern Europe, possibly Poland”.
Alas, poor auroch...
You have milked this for all that it is worth
And how do you know that?
Insight into the introduction of domestic cattle and the process of Neolithization to the Spanish region Galicia by genetic evidence
Marie Gurke ,Amalia Vidal-Gorosquieta ,Johanna L. A. Pajimans,Karolina Wȩcek,Axel Barlow,Gloria González-Fortes,Stefanie Hartmann,Aurora Grandal-d’Anglade,Michael Hofreiter
Published: April 28, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249537
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0249537
For all I know it could be an artist who fashioned a facsimile that looks like a live animal, but isn't at all. I figured that the best I could have hoped for would be merely a rendering. 🙂
This thread pails by comparison with some.
> Cattle domestication really did revolutionize our diet, society, helped transition us (ironically) into urban living, which led to all the thing we (well, most of us) take for granted, such as settled living, literacy, division of labor, standing armies...
Neil Young songs...
Weighed one ton ... wow ...20 lb T-bone steaks ...Yum Yum
*ouch*
Able was I ere I saw Elba
🤣
“In the north of the peninsula, the oldest domestic cows are about 7 to 6 thousand years old.”
Their milk goes sour after 1000 years unless you put it in the fridge.
A southern man don’t need him around.
> A southern man don’t need him around.
the cowgirl in the sand begs to differ
(and btw try the veal, it’s the best in town...)
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