A herd of sheep grazes in a steppe landscape (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

A herd of sheep grazes in a steppe landscape

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A herd of sheep grazes in a steppe landscape near Arkaim, where herders would have managed similar flocks 4,000 years ago.

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© Taylor Hermes

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To be used for reporting on this research by Ian Light-Maka et al. (2025) only.

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