Starving cattle engraving (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology

Starving cattle engraving

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Slender cattle with exposed ribs (underlying camels) in rock art have been interpreted as indicating malnutrition or starvation owing to environmental stress.

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Palaeodeserts Project

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