This 5,000-Year-Old Cow Had Something Really Weird Done To Its Head
By Jonathan O`Callaghan
19 Apr 2018, 14:00
It’s not always a study grabs my attention immediately, but this one certainly did. Scientists have found an ancient cow skull that appears to have been drilled into by humans, for reasons that aren’t entirely clear.
The skull belongs to a cow (Bos taurus) from a Neolithic site dating back to 3,400 to 3,000 BCE. Discovered in Champ-Durand in France in 1978, the skull has a sizeable hole in it that measures a few centimeters across. It was originally thought it was caused by goring from another cow’s horns.
http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/this-5000-year-old-cow-had-something-really-weird-done-to-its-head/
