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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Public Library of Science
2018
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