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- Title
Finding the Aurochs (Bos primigenius Bojanus 1825) in the Late Holocene of Asia.
- Authors
Kosintsev, P. A.; Beisenov, A. Z.; Gimranov, D. O.
- Abstract
An m3 tooth of a large bovid (Bos) was found at the Late Holocene (Subatlantic period 1) archaeological site of Abylay (49.15° N, 75.07° E) in Kazakhstan. The tooth, 47.3 mm in length, was compared to the size of similar teeth of the Holocene aurochs (Bos primigenius) from Europe and cattle (Bos taurus) from Eastern Europe and Western Siberia of the Middle and Late Holocene (Subboreal and Subatlantic periods; Eneolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Middle Ages). Our results show the size of the tooth from Abylay as being noticeably larger than that of the cattle and similar to the size of the teeth of the aurochs. Based on this result, we came to the conclusion that the tooth belonged to an aurochs. This observation suggests that the aurochs lived in the area of the Kazakh Uplands during the Late Holocene (Subatlantic 1). This seems to have been the last area inhabited by aurochs in Asia.
- Subjects
KAZAKHSTAN; ASIA; HOLOCENE Epoch; CATTLE; BOVIDAE; IRON Age; BRONZE Age; ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations
- Publication
Biology Bulletin, 2023, Vol 50, Issue 7, p1423
- ISSN
1062-3590
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/S1062359023070154