A History of Agriculture in India v1.c16.29

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*Ovis orientalis vignei*, which has many wild varieties in mountains from Afghanistan to Armenia, is probably the ancestor of domesticated sheep in India as well as in Arabia. The people of Anau in Soviet Turkestan domesticated a variety of *Ovis orientalis vignei*, and it is generally believed that all domesticated sheep have been derived by selective breeding and crossing from the varieties found in Turkestan. The inhabitants of Mohenjo-daro and Harappa had domesticated sheep with them. Toys showing a ram's head have been recovered from Mohenjo-daro (Fig. 57).