2008/12/01 by Anthony H. Lynch, Julie Hamilton, R.E.M. Hedges · 2 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · Social Sciences · #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Isotope Analysis in Ecology #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
paper · doi:10.1017/s0003598x00097751
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Abstract The aurochs was a type of wild cattle not extinct in Europe until the mid-second millennium BC – so they must have co-existed for centuries with the domestic cattle which were to supplant it. Here the authors use stable isotope analysis to show what form that co-existence took: the domestic cattle grazing on the pasture, and the aurochs lurking in the forests and wet places.