Authors
Ceiridwen J Edwards, Ruth Bollongino, Amelie Scheu, Andrew Chamberlain, Anne Tresset, Jean-Denis Vigne, Jillian F Baird, Greger Larson, Simon YW Ho, Tim H Heupink, Beth Shapiro, Abigail R Freeman, Mark G Thomas, Rose-Marie Arbogast, Betty Arndt, László Bartosiewicz, Norbert Benecke, Mihael Budja, Louis Chaix, Alice M Choyke, Eric Coqueugniot, Hans-Jürgen Döhle, Holger Göldner, Sönke Hartz, Daniel Helmer, Barabara Herzig, Hitomi Hongo, Marjan Mashkour, Mehmet Özdogan, Erich Pucher, Georg Roth, Sabine Schade-Lindig, Ulrich Schmölcke, Rick J Schulting, Elisabeth Stephan, Hans-Peter Uerpmann, István Vörös, Barbara Voytek, Daniel G Bradley, Joachim Burger
Publication date
2007/6/7
Journal
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Volume
274
Issue
1616
Pages
1377-1385
Publisher
The Royal Society
Description
The extinct aurochs (Bos primigenius primigenius) was a large type of cattle that ranged over almost the whole Eurasian continent. The aurochs is the wild progenitor of modern cattle, but it is unclear whether European aurochs contributed to this process. To provide new insights into the demographic history of aurochs and domestic cattle, we have generated high-confidence mitochondrial DNA sequences from 59 archaeological skeletal finds, which were attributed to wild European cattle populations based on their chronological date and/or morphology. All pre-Neolithic aurochs belonged to the previously designated P haplogroup, indicating that this represents the Late Glacial Central European signature. We also report one new and highly divergent haplotype in a Neolithic aurochs sample from Germany, which points to greater variability during the Pleistocene. Furthermore, the Neolithic and Bronze Age …
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