MtDNA haplotype identification of aurochs remains originating from the Czech Republic (Central Europe)

作者：Kysely Rene^*; Hajek Martin

来源：Environmental Archaeology, 2012, 17(2): 118-125.

DOI：10.1179/1461410312Z.00000000010

• wild cattle (Bos primigenius)
• aDNA
• haplotype P
• domestication

This study presents the results of the analysis of mtDNA bone samples morphologically determined to be aurochs (Bos primigenius) from four various archaeological finds in the Czech Republic (Central Europe). The results from two of them - the Pleistocene sample from Praha-Reporyje and the Neolithic sample from Vedrovice - probably represent contamination by modern DNA. Sequences identified in the Eneolithic Kutna Hora-Denemark site (similar to 5 thousand BP) confirm the presence of haplogroup P in the geographically partly isolated Czech basin. This finding (the first of its kind within the Czech Republic) is consistent with other published findings showing the domination of this aurochs haplogroup line in Europe. The combination of large individual size and 'domestic' mtDNA suggest, if inconclusively, that the Early Medieval fourth sample from Vysehrad could potentially represent an aurochs/domestic cattle hybrid.

• 出版日期2012-10