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| trinomial = ''Sus scrofa scrofa'' | trinomial_authority = Linnaeus, 1758 }} The Central European boar (''Sus scrofa scrofa'') is a subspecies of wild boar native to northern Spain, northern Italy, France, Germany, Benelux, Denmark, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and possibly Albania. It is extinct in the British Isles.〔Bell, T. (1837), ''A history of Britisch Quadrupeds including the Cetacea'', Van Voorst, pp. 360-361〕 It is a medium-sized, dark to rusty-brown haired subspecies with long and relatively narrow lacrimal bones.〔Heptner, V. G. ; Nasimovich, A. A. ; Bannikov, A. G. ; Hoffman, R. S. (1988) (''Mammals of the Soviet Union'' ), Volume I, Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Libraries and National Science Foundation, pp. 19-82〕 In northern Italy, artificially introduced ''S. s. scrofa'' have extensively interbred with the smaller sized indigenous ''S. s. majori'' populations since the 1950s.〔 Scheggi, Massimo (1999). ''La bestia nera: Caccia al cinghiale fra mito, storia e attualità''. Editoriale Olimpia (collana Caccia). pp. 86–89. ISBN 88-253-7904-8.〕 The boar features prominently in Scandinavian, Germanic and Anglo-Saxon culture, with its image having been frequently engraved on helmets, shields and swords. According to Tacitus, the Baltic Aesti featured boars on their helmets, and may have also worn boar masks. The boar and pig were held in particularly high esteem by the Celts, who considered them to be their most important sacred animal. Some Celtic deities linked to boars include Moccus and Veteris. It has been suggested that some early myths surrounding the Welsh hero Culhwch involved the character being the son of a boar god.〔Mallory, J. P. & Adams, D. Q. (1997), ''Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture'', Taylor & Francis, pp. 426-428, ISBN 1884964982〕 Nevertheless, the importance of the boar as a culinary item among Celtic tribes may have been exaggerated in popular culture by the ''Asterix'' series, as wild boar bones are rare among Celtic archaeological sites, and the few that occur show no signs of butchery, having probably been used in sacrificial rituals.〔Green, M. (2002), ''Animals in Celtic Life and Myth'', Routledge, p. 46, ISBN 1134665318〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Central European boar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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