Where the wild things are: aurochs and cattle in England

• Autores: Anthony H. Lynch, Julie Hamilton, Robert E. M. Hedges
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 82, Nº 318, 2008, págs. 1025-1039
• Idioma: inglés
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  • 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.