Posted on 02/15/2010 11:21:59 AM PST by SunkenCiv
The discovery of a new "missing link" species of bull dating to a million years ago in Eritrea pushes back the beef steak dinner to the very dawn of humans and cattle. Although there is no evidence that early humans were actually herding early cattle 2.5 million years ago, the early humans and early cattle certainly shared the same landscape and beef was definitely on the menu all along, say researchers... "This means that the humans have been eating Bos since the beginnings of the genus Homo," said Martinez, referring to the genus to which humans belong. The million-year-old skull of the new Bos species, dubbed Bos buiaensis, has features of both earlier and later forms of Bos, which make it essentially a missing link between more modern cow-like species found in Eurasia and the earlier African cattle ancestors found alongside hominids and dating back 2.5 million years... there is also a tantalizing resemblance between the newfound Bos and depictions of bulls in ancient petroglyphs found in western Saudi Arabia... The petroglyphs are at least 5,000 years old, she said, but very hard to date exactly... The ancient pictures also include depictions of some of the other animals known to have left Africa by the same route: lions, cheetahs and hyena, she said. The message from the new fossil echoes those being discovered about the prehistory of other domesticated animals, including horses...
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The petroglyphs (which just happened to have survived in the open air; humans have probably been painting and/or etching stuff on walls for a long, long time, but most of it weathered away) show these and other critters (now extinct in Arabia) along the purported “out of Africa” route. I don’t buy into “out of Africa”. The million year old fossil skull shows a transitional forum between the 2.5 million year old fossil from old ancestors’ barbeques and living species.
And yet, we're advised that eating red meat is unnatural and bad for us...
I think that's only because they hadn't yet discovered Tofu. Or, maybe not.
Never mind that - what kind of dry rub did they use?
Beef special tips? ;’)
Probably football too. Nothin’ too farfetched about games having a prehistory. :’)
:’) Nice!
Don’t know the answer to that. I am wondering wher one can go get a real good Bronto Burger or T-Rex steak.
I read a book whose main theory was that man evolved because of cannibalism—specifically brain eating—which tended to increase the brain of the brain eaters.
So if you’re very very smart...
;’)
Pterodactyl patties on the barbie, mmm mmm mmm
Ogg like nice med rare NY Strip.
Ogg like grilled ‘shrooms in a butter-garlic sauce on side.
The ones at Ponderosa only go back 1.5 million years....to the dawn of the era of horse racing.
I beg to differ.
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