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The Caucasian race (also Caucasoid, [a] Europid, or Europoid) [2] is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on a now-disproven theory of biological race. [3] [4] [5] The Caucasian race was historically regarded as a biological taxon which, depending on which of the historical race classifications was being used, usually included ancient and modern populations from all or parts of ...
The largest peoples speaking languages which belong to the Caucasian language families and who are currently resident in the Caucasus are the Georgians (3,200,000), the Chechens (2,000,000), the Avars (1,200,000), the Lezgins (about 1,000,000) and the Kabardians (600,000), while outside the Caucasus, the largest people of Caucasian origin, in ...
Stone sculpture of sheep from Nakchivan, related to the 16th century.Is kept in Azerbaijan State Museum of History [1]. Stone sculptures of horses and sheep [2] – are zoomorphic headstones, [3] spread in the South Caucasus, Eastern Turkey and Iranian Azerbaijan, the main part of which is dated back to the 13th-19th centuries.
A chokha, [a] also known as a cherkeska, [2] is a Kartvelian woolen coat with a high neck that is part of the traditional male dress of peoples of the Caucasus. [3] It was in wide use among Avars, Eastern Armenians [4] Abazins, Abkhazians, Azerbaijanis, Balkars, Chechens, Circassians, Georgians, Ingush, Karachays, Kumyks, Nogais, Ossetians, Tats, the peoples of Dagestan, as well as Terek ...
An adult female is referred to as a ewe (/ j uː / yoo), an intact male as a ram, occasionally a tup, a castrated male as a wether, and a young sheep as a lamb. Sheep are most likely descended from the wild mouflon of Europe and Asia, with Iran being a geographic envelope of the domestication center. [1]
Woman shares her very special bond with 3 sheep, Rabbit, Tic, and Bandi, in order to change people’s perception of farm animals and their attitude towards them Image credits: @lakelandlambies ...
Sheep. Mating in sheep is characterized by males competing for females in estrus. [9] Social rank in rams is established by male-male competition during the rutting period. [10] Females select from dominant males based on sexually selected characteristics such as body size and horn size, as those traits are desirable in offspring.
Modified sheep skulls found in the latest study appear to be much older. These Hierakonpolis sheep remains, according to researchers, provide the oldest case of horn modification of livestock by ...