Pre-Roman improvements to agricultural production: Evidence from livestock husbandry in late prehistoric Italy.

Domestication of wild cattle, sheep, and pigs began a process of body size diminution. In most of Western Europe this process continued across prehistory and was not reversed until the Roman period. However, in Italy, an increase in livestock body size occurred during the Iron Age, earlier than the...

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Main Authors: Angela Trentacoste, Ariadna Nieto-Espinet, Silvia Valenzuela-Lamas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208109