REACTIVATED MARTIN BRIDGE\WILD SHEEP CREEK BOUNDARY ACROSS THE EASTERN WALL OF RAPID RIVER CANYON; RIGGINS, IDAHO

AbstractIndia ranks the second in the world in terms of its sheep population with approximately 74.26 million represented by 44 well-described breeds in addition to several non-descript populations. Genetic diversity and phylogeography of Indian sheep breeds remain poorly understood, particularly for south Indian breeds. To have a comprehensive view of the domestication history of Indian sheep, we sequenced the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region (D-loop) and cytochrome b gene (CYTB) of 16 Indian domestic sheep breeds, most of them (13) from the south India. We analysed these sequences along with published data of domestic and wild sheep from different countries, including India. The haplotype diversity was relatively high in Indian sheep, which were classified into the three known mtDNA lineages, namely A, B and C. Lineage A was predominant among Indian sheep whereas lineages B and C were observed at low frequencies but C was restricted to the breeds of north and east India. The median joining network showed five major expanding haplogroups of lineage A (A1–A5). Out of which, A2, A4 and A5 were more frequent in Indian sheep in contrast to breeds from other parts of the world. Among the 27 Indian sheep breeds analysed, Mandya and Sonadi breeds were significantly different from other Indian breeds in the MDS analyses. This was explained by a very high contribution of lineage B into these two breeds. The Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) provided evidence for the domestication of lineage A sheep in the Indian subcontinent. Contrary to the current knowledge, we also found strong support for the introduction of lineage B into Indian subcontinent through sea route rather than from the Mongolian Plateau. The neighbour-joining tree of domestic and wild sheep revealed the close genetic relationship of Indian domestic sheep with Pakistani wild sheep O. vignei blanfordi. Based on our analyses and archaeological evidences, we suggest the Indian subcontinent as one of the domestication centres of the lineage A sheep, while lineage B sheep might have arrived into India from elsewhere via Arabian sea route. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first comprehensive study on Indian sheep where we have analysed more than 740 animals belonging to 27 sheep breeds raised in various regions of India. Our study provides insight into the understanding of the origin and migratory history of Indian sheep.

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Mountain monarchs. Wild sheep and goats of the Himalaya

Animal Behaviour ◽

10.1016/0003-3472(79)90165-9 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 27 ◽

pp. 320-321

Author(s):

Peter J. Jarman

Keyword(s):

Sheep And Goats ◽

Wild Sheep ◽

The Himalaya

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True hermaphroditism in a wild sheep: A clinical report

Theriogenology ◽

10.1016/0093-691x(91)90377-p ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 36 (2) ◽

pp. 185-190 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

T.D. Bunch ◽

R.J. Callan ◽

A. Maciulis ◽

J.C. Dalton ◽

M.R. Figueroa ◽

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Keyword(s):

Clinical Report ◽

True Hermaphroditism ◽

Wild Sheep

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Tibetan Wild Sheep Scandal

Tibet Wild ◽

10.5822/978-1-61091-232-7_12 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 259-272

Author(s):

George B. Schaller

Keyword(s):

Wild Sheep

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A Mortuary Complex with Animal Skulls at Khankarinsky Dol, a Scythian Age Cemetery in the Northwestern Altai

Archaeology Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia ◽

10.17746/1563-0110.2021.49.3.032-040 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 49 (3) ◽

pp. 32-40

Author(s):

P. K. Dashkovskiy

Keyword(s):

Baikal Region ◽

Northern China ◽

Left Bank ◽

Altai Mountains ◽

Eastern Wall ◽

Burial Rite

This article presents a description of Khankarinsky Dol mound 34 on the left bank of the Inya River, 1–1.5 km southeast of Chineta, Krasnoshchekovsky District, Altai Territory. Excavations revealed a cist with a supine burial of a male, whose head was oriented to the east. Beyond the eastern wall of the cist, a horse cranium and three crania of sheep were placed. Features of the burial rite suggest that the burial belongs to the Korgantass type, which is distributed over the Altai-Sayan and Kazakhstan, with certain parallels in northern China. Principal categories of offerings are analyzed, including those associated with the horse. On their basis, the horse harness is reconstructed. On the basis of the typology of artifacts and radiocarbon analysis, the burial was dated to the 5th to 4th centuries BC (possibly late 5th to early 4th centuries BC). The Korgantass burials at Khankarinsky Dol and elsewhere in the Altai Mountains indicate a migration from the eastern part of the nomadic world, apparently from northern China or the Trans-Baikal region.

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The Labyrinth and the Non-Solution: Murakami’s A Wild Sheep Chase and the Metaphysical Detective

MANUSYA ◽

10.1163/26659077-02201004 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 76-89

Author(s):

Rhys William Tyers

Keyword(s):

Detective Fiction ◽

Main Argument ◽

Search For Meaning ◽

Detective Novel ◽

Raymond Chandler ◽

Detective Story ◽

Guiding Principle ◽

Wild Sheep ◽

Detective Stories ◽

Definition Of

Many of Murakami’s novels demonstrate his appropriation of the terminology, imagery and metaphor that are found in hardboiled detective fiction. The question of Haruki Murakami’s use of the tropes from hardboiled detective stories has been discussed by scholars such as Hantke (2007), Stretcher (2002) and Suter (2008), who argue that the writer uses these features as a way to organize his narratives and to pay homage to one of his literary heroes, Raymond Chandler. However, these arguments have not adequately addressed the fact that many of Murakami’s novels fit into the definition of the metaphysical detective story, which is “a text that parodies or subverts traditional detective-story conventions” (Merivale & Sweeney 1999:2). Using this definition as a guiding principle, this paper addresses the issue of the metaphysical detective features apparent in Murakami’s third novel, A Wild Sheep Chase, and, more specifically, looks at his use of the non-solution and labyrinth as narrative devices. The main argument, then, is that Murakami’s A Wild Sheep Chase fits in with the metaphysical detective novel and uses the familiar tropes of the labyrinth and the non-solution to highlight our impossible search for meaning.

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A qibla mušarriqa for the First al-Aqṣà Mosque? A New Stratigraphic, Planimetric, and Chronological Reading of Hamilton’s Excavation, and Some Considerations on the Introduction of the Concave miḥrāb

Annali Sezione Orientale ◽

10.1163/24685631-12340026 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 77 (1-2) ◽

pp. 66-96 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Michelina Di Cesare

Keyword(s):

The South ◽

Structural History ◽

Dome Of The Rock ◽

History Of ◽

Eastern Wall

This paper reconstructs an alternative planimetric and structural history of al-Aqṣà mosque in the pre-crusader period and reassesses the chronology. In particular, it proposes reading the plan of the first Aqṣà, which emerged from Hamilton’s excavations, as oriented towards the east rather than the south, thus having an astronomical orientation like other 7th-century and early 8th-century mosques. The identification of the eastern wall rather than the southern as theqiblīwall would mean the aisles would not be perpendicular but rather parallel to it, thus indicating an arrangement usually found in Umayyad mosques. It follows that the precocious appearance of the transept and the aisles perpendicular to theqiblīwall in the second Aqṣà would result from the re-orientation to the south of the previous structure. This change is interpreted as connected to the introduction of the concavemiḥrāband its axial relationship with the Dome of the Rock.

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