The Bison in Denmark. A Zoological and Geological Investigation of the Finds in Danish Pleistocene Deposits

Abstract

Whereas we have a very comprehensive and, to a great extent, dated find-material for the Aurochs (Bos primigenius Boj.) from Danish bogs, there were only three known Danish Bison finds up to a few years ago, and their age was furthermore quite uncertain. The first find - a brain-case - came from Baldersbrønde near Roskilde and was published in 1852 by Japetus Steenstrup, who moreover in the year 1869 mentions still another find, but without saying anything about the finding-place. V. Nordmann (1915) has shown that from all the evidence Steenstrup in the case of the second find was referring to a skull fragment from Mjang Mose, on the island of Als, which in Steenstrup's time was already in the museum of the Sorø Academy. The third Bison find was made in 1902 in a bog near the town of Hjørring - again a brain-case (V. Nordmann 1930).