The cattle depicted in the cave-paintings at Lascaux have been identified by prehistorians as Bos primigenius (the large forms with curved horns) and B. longifrons (smaller, thinner, and with horns shorter and more horizontal). This latter, however, is only the female of B. primigenius. There was no separate small species of Bos in the European Pleistocene, and if the domestic cattle of the Neolithic and later are actually derived from small wild cattle, these must have lived elsewhere, probably in western Asia, but there is no evidence for this supposition.