Re: Euxine Event.

João wrote:

> Lions in Central Asia? I've never heard this. Well, there was the

"Cave

> Lion" (Panthera leo spelaea) in Eurasia, but some scholars think

the
"Cave

> Lion" was actually a "Cave Tiger" (Panthera tigris spelaea). And

there was

> the great North American Lion from La Brea (Panthera leo atrox).

Lions in fact figured extensively in the Scythian "animal" style,
popular from 1000 BCE until 150 BCE on the steppes. By about 500 BCE
they had gone, being confined to Iran and the Thar region of India
where they survive to the present day.

John