aurochs
From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Date: 2008
aurochs see cattle .
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A Late Mesolithic kill site of aurochs at Jardinga, Netherlands.(Statistical Data Included)
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A horn worth blowing? A stray find of aurochs from Hungary.
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Genetic hoofprints
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... capture of the formidable wild ox, or aurochs. Taming a long-- horned beast six feet ... domestic cattle? Was more than one kind of aurochs brought under human control, and if so ... carried a genetic inheritance from the aurochs that still inhabited Europe when cattle ...
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... well as by red deer (Cervus elaphus), aurochs (Bos primigenius) and horse (Equus), all ... environments and humid in the case of aurochs (Cardoso 1992). At Cabeco de Porto Marinho ... red deer, roe deer, wild boar, horse and aurochs shared the lowlands. Regional geomorphology ...
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Tertium non datur ou De l'inconvénient d'être roumain
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... their wild, now-extinct cousins, known as aurochs, already living in some parts of Europe ... sequences were isolated from five Italian aurochs fossils previously dated at between 7 ... Asia, Europe, and North America. Italian aurochs display mitochondrial-DNA sequences that ...
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Tertium non datur
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