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The earliest domestic cat on the Silk Road.
Scientific reports - 9 Jul 2020
Haruda A F, Ventresca Miller A R, Paijmans J L A, Barlow A, Tazhekeyev A, Bilalov S, Hesse Y, Preick M, King T, Thomas R, Härke H, Arzhantseva I
Abstract excerpt
We present the earliest evidence for domestic cat (Felis catus L., 1758) from Kazakhstan, found as a well preserved skeleton with extensive osteological pathologies dating to 775-940 cal CE from the early medieval city of Dzhankent, Kazakhstan. This urban settlement was located on the intersection of the northern Silk Road route which linked the cities of Khorezm in the south to the trading settlements in the...
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