Human mediated dispersal of cats in the Neolithic Central Europe
M. Baca, D. Popovic, H. Panagiotopoulou, A. Marciszak, M. Krajcarz, M. T. Krajcarz, D. Makowiecki, P. Weglenski, A. Nadachowski
The paper investigates mtDNA of Holocene Felis remains in Central Europe, finding an unexpectedly early presence of Near Eastern wildcat haplotypes, suggesting early human-mediated dispersal of cats during the Neolithic.
bioRxiv · Feb 5, 2018Ecology