image: A zebu-shaped weight from Tel Beth-Shemesh. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 12, 2019 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by M.P. Verdugo at Trinity College Dublin in Dublin, UK, and colleagues was titled, 'Ancient cattle genomics, origins and rapid turnover in the Fertile Crescent.' view more
Credit: Photograph by A. Hay; courtesy of the Tel Beth-Shemesh Excavations Expedition