Sentences with phrase «wild cattle bones»

At Neolithic sites such as Çatalhöyük in Turkey, for example, archaeologists have found evidence that wild cattle bones were deposited in the foundations of mud - brick houses; the bones may be the remains of neighborhood feasts to celebrate the building of new dwellings.

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At a just - concluded archaeology meeting in Paris, and in a paper published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they draw upon further studies at the site to argue that the animal remains — which include the shells of 71 tortoises and the bones of at least three wild cattle — were consumed during a feast to commemorate the death and burial of the woman.

It is made out of a bone from an aurochs, a type of wild cattle, and shows the importance of wood in the Mesolithic period.