Auroch horn from Neolithic pit 48 of Perdigões
The project
Perdigões PTDC/EPH-ARQ/0798/2014 – MOBINTER - "Mobility and interaction in
South Portugal Recent Prehistory: the role of aggregation centers” is
collaborating with the project ARCHAIC. The archaeogenetics Of Iberian Cattle:
investigating their origins, evolution and improvement” (see information here: http://archaic.campus.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/Archaic/home.html).
In this
context sixty samples (30 of Bos taurus
– domestic cattle -and 30 of Bos
primigenius – auroch) will be selected for DNA analysis from Neolithic and
Chalcolithic contexts of Perdigões.