Re: Near Eastern origin of European cattle.

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

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http://www.eva.mpg.de/evolution/staff/c_smith/pdf/Gotherstrom_et_alAurochs05.pdf

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16243693&dopt=Abstract>

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> All the sources you mention are characteristically vague on what
> defines a location as a center of domestication. The practical
> definition seems to be that for each race of cows, within its area
> they have picked the place with the earliest archaeologically
> documented transition to farming as the center of domestication for
> that race. And as I said, much of NEAsia is under-investigated
> archaeologically. Therefore, Anatolia might have to give up the prize
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> Torsten

That said, it is still *always* going to be either Anatolia or South
Asia in the Indo-European world, as far deciding the issue of PIE
origin is concerned.

M. Kelkar