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Breed character or pathology? Cattle with loose horns from the Eneolithic site of Hostivice-Litovice (Czech Republic)

SYSNO ASEP	0347311
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Článek ve WOS
Title	Breed character or pathology? Cattle with loose horns from the Eneolithic site of Hostivice-Litovice (Czech Republic)
Author(s)	Kyselý, René (ARU-G)_{RID, SAI, ORCID}
Number of authors	1
Source Title	Journal of Archaeological Science. - : Elsevier - ISSN 0305-4403 Roč. 37, č. 6 (2010), s. 1241-1246
Number of pages	6 s.
Publication form	www - www
Language	eng - English
Country	US - United States
Keywords	cattle (Bos taurus) ; Chalcolithic ; Central Europe ; loose horns ; hornlessness ; pathology
Subject RIV	AC - Archeology, Anthropology, Ethnology
CEZ	AV0Z80020508 - ARU-G (2005-2011)
UT WOS	000276764100012
EID SCOPUS	77950022910
DOI	10.1016/j.jas.2009.12.024
Annotation	Archaeological finds of a ritual character from Hostivice–Litovice are classed as Eneolithic cattle burials (depositions). One pit from the Funnel Beaker Period (Baalberge group; ca. 3800–3500 BC) contained a subadult bovine skeleton, whose skull bore loose horns (scurs) while still alive. This type of horn, which is movable or possibly hanging, is known from recent breeds and is caused by a special combination of alleles on two locuses and its phenotypic expression is sexually specific. However, this can also be simply a pathological state (teratology, atrophy, dysplasia or fractures), possibly caused by deliberate deformative manipulation on the horns. Such manipulations are known from recent breeding as well as from the prehistory. Both possible causations of this unique find from Hostivice–Litovice and related finds of hornlessness are discussed.
Workplace	Institute of Archaeology (Prague)
Contact	Lada Šlesingerová, slesingerova@arup.cas.cz, Tel.: 257 014 412
Year of Publishing	2011

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