USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Cattle were independently domesticated from the aurochs, a wild bovine species, in the vicinity of the current countries of Turkey and Pakistan ∼10, 000 y ago. Cattle have since spread with humans across the world, including to regions where these two distinct lineages have hybridized.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first cows brought to the Americas by explorer Christopher Columbus originated from two extinct wild beasts from India and Europe, a new genetic analysis shows.

Detailed explanation-3: -DNA traces cattle back to a small herd domesticated around 10, 500 years ago. All cattle are descended from as few as 80 animals that were domesticated from wild ox in the Near East some 10, 500 years ago, according to a new genetic study.

Detailed explanation-4: -The aurochs is known to be the wild ancestor of cattle. Aurochs roamed the earth for a very long time. In fact, the oldest aurochs remains have been dated to about 2 million years ago. They were found in India.

Detailed explanation-5: -According to the specific region where cattle remains were unearthed in China, it is believed that the earliest domesticated cattle in China occurred in northwestern China approximately 5, 000–4, 000 YBP (Flad et al., 2009).