"Please, tell me, priest – I've lost a parent , I must know! Were the first large inhabitants of #Euston the feared flesh-eating wild #aurochs? Do their still-solid #ghosts still plauge track maintenance and #HS2 workers to this day?"

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That (both drawings based on reliefs from #GöbekliTepe, Turkey) is an almost standard #aurochs #depiction: bodies in side view, but heads shown in a somehow distorted perspective - lowered, presenting horns. Just like you'd experience an apparently attacking animal in the wild.

#SundayArchaeology: How could one not be impressed by the incredible #VisualLanguage of Pre-Pottery #Neolithic #iconography?

"Give me a strong, dangerous #aurochs, horns full frontal. Make it run!" - "And ow about a slain ox? Obviously: tongue out, legs stretched. Totally dead."

Also: Remember our slain #CatalHöyük #aurochs? https://t.co/pC9gXTbKiX

From SW #Libya there are more & in this context particularly interesting hunting depictions known:

Here's a scene showing an #aurochs bow-hunt complemented by use of so-called #Fangsteine: rocks, which, once a fleeing animal's been entangled, helped tiring & slowing it down.

Admittedly, it's a bit challenging to really recognise a bow here in this #Sayburc scene. So, could it be something else then?

This offers a great chance to think about other possible #hunting tools and weapons which have played a role in #Neoltihic hunting, #aurochs and beyond.

From, yet again, another quite special find at #GobekliTepe (a bone with the still embedded tip of a #projectile point), we know that bow and #arrow certainly played a role in #Neolithic #aurochs hunting.

https://www.dainst.blog/the-tepe-telegrams/2018/01/17/on-the-hunt-some-12-000-years-ago-an-aurochs-bone-with-hunting-lesion-from-gobekli-tepe

But what is this guy doing there? Messing around with an #aurochs?! 🤘🐮

Is this a hunting scene? What is it he's got in his hand there then? A #bow?

But at #Sayburc we see a still living animal, a still dangerous #aurochs (just imagine such an 1,600 pound heavy beast accelerating towards you 😱).

At #Sayburc we see a confrontation.

With the difference that in #CatalHöyük a group of people is depicted w/ an apparently *slain* #aurochs.

Its characteristic features (note the head: not any longer presenting horns (and danger), legs bend, tongue out) also known from #GobekliTepe's P66:

https://www.dainst.blog/the-tepe-telegrams/2017/03/02/the-death-of-an-aurochs-gobekli-tepe-pillar-66-enclosure-h

But again it is this combination of powerful animal (here an #aurochs, able to put up a fight) and human which makes the whole scene so interesting - and extraordinarily fascinating.

Somehow reminding of that famous (but a bit later) mural from #Neolithic #CatalHöyük ...

This mode of depicting #aurochs heads even has become so specific that it’s been turned into what almost could be considered kind of a #Neolithic #meme:

The #bucranium substituting the whole animal and, emphasising the horns, arguably its most dangerous and impressive element. https://t.co/CPDZxn8kwW

Again, the #Sayburc #aurochs absolutely corresponds to what we'd expect considering the known #Neolithic iconographic programme:

The animal's depicted in sideview, but the head is turned, seen from the front, emphasising the horns as if attacking (again signalling danger).

#introduction So, let me introduce myself. I’m ecologist and working on natural grazing in Europe, founder of the Taurus foundation and cooperating with #Rewilding Europe. Our aim: raising #biodiversity and setting the true descendant of #aurochs - the Tauros - wild and free again as a wild animal. I will post every now and again on the progress of the Tauros Programme

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