Ancient genomics pinpoint origin and rapid turnover of cattle in the Fertile Crescent
(PHYSorg.com Archaeology & Fossils)

The keeping of livestock began in the Ancient Near East and underpinned the emergence of complex economies and then cities. Subsequently, it is there that the world`s first empires rose and fell. Now, ancient DNA has revealed how the prehistory of the region`s largest domestic animal, the cow, chimes with these events.