Bison history – North America
Bison history: A bison losing his warm winter coat Bison or buffalo? Bison (we used to call them buffalo) are a kind of cattle, like cows. Like other cows such as [...]
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Who domesticated cattle? History of cows
History of cows: Cows in a field The wild auroch Cattle are the tame version of the wild aurochs that used to live on the grass plains of Asia, Africa, [...]
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Environment of Central Asia
Central Asian steppe What is the steppe? By the time the first Neanderthals reached Central Asia, maybe about 100,000 BC, most of Central Asia was covered by hundreds of miles [...]
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What is an aurochs? Central Asian Environment
Cave painting of a herd of aurochs (about 14000 BC) When did the aurochs evolve? Around fifty million years ago, after the dinosaurs died, large mammals started to evolve from smaller mammals [...]
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What was the Silk Road? Central Asian Economy
Mongol herdsman Hunting wild animals The first people moved into Central Asia about 50,000 BC. They were probably following the big animals that they hunted for food and leather skins [...]
