Horned goat skull
Buzzards wheeling overhead pointed the way to the carcass of this large, horned goat. It was found in a quarry off the main road opposite Kypriotianika, 2002. Horned goat skull, 25...
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Small goat skull
The goat is probably the most popular of all farm animals on Kythera. When goat’s milk is plentiful, farm wives make the delicious soft cheese called mizithra, by stirring the boil...
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Cat Skull
Cat skull, front view. 8.5 cm. Fratsia 1993. Photograph © Peter B. Tzannes, 2003
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Cat Skull, side view
The domestic short-haired cat is still quite common in Kytherian villages, but as people take them indoors as pets, the numbers of semi-wild farm cats seem to be dwindling. They ar...
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Cow Skull
Cows are not as popular as goats and sheep, but many famers on Kythera still keep them, especially in villages like Fratsia, where there are large, flat fields for grazing. Cow sku...
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