Re: Near Eastern origin of European cattle.

> > 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 one day.
> >

> 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.

Of course not. If an archaeological site with transition to
stock-breeding earlier than that of the Anatolian ones is found
somewhere on the Steppes between the Ukraine and China, that site
automatically becomes the new assumed origin of domestication of Bos
Taurus. And on the origin of cereals, none of your sources seem to be
aware that the European and East Asian varieties of millet are
identical. Obvious that didn't come out of Anatolia.


Torsten