Archaeological sheep bones (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Archaeological sheep bones

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Archaeological sheep bones unveiled at a Bronze Age site in the Eurasian steppe. Archaeological sheep bones unveiled at a Bronze Age site in the Eurasian steppe. Ancient animal bones are the key to understanding the origins of zoonotic infectious diseases.

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© Björn Reichhardt

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