Wild or domestic? On the evidence for the earliest domestic cattle and pigs in south Scandinavia and Iberia

On the causes of perforations in archaeo

On the causes of perforations in archaeological domestic cattle skulls: New evidence

✍ Nina H. Manaseryan; Keith Dobney; Anton Ervynck 📂 Article 📅 1999 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 137 KB

An example of ante-mortem cranial perforations in the skull of a European wisent (Bison bonasus) from Armenia is presented. The implications for reinterpreting the possible causes of this condition in ancient domestic cattle (outlined in a previous paper) are briefly discussed.