The researchers identified several bones (including a skull) of an extinct cattle species known as the aurochs, as well as the remains of a small ruminant, a partridge bone, a canid bone and a ...

have deciphered the prehistory of aurochs—the animals that were the focus of some of the most iconic early human art—by analyzing 38 genomes harvested from bones dating across 50 millennia and ...

Domestication of cattle began around 10,000 years ago. Early humans discovered that using aurochs’ meat, milk, hides and bones greatly benefited their survival. This led to the deliberate breeding of ...

Elk bones dating back 10,000 years have been identified in a museum collection in Stroud. The bones, which include a jawbone and a metacarpus from a mature elk, have been part of the Museum in the ...