Niche construction theory provides a framework to analyze the environmental effects of
changing pastoral practices. In Europe, domesticated herd animals facilitated the expansion …

Domestic animals have played an important role in shaping human Evolution and History.
After millennia of constructing niches based on hunting, gathering, and foraging, a range of …

Niche construction theory, a branch of evolutionary biology, places emphasis on the
capacity of organisms, through their metabolism, activities and choices, to modify natural …

The colonization of agriculturally marginal zones in the highlands of Europe has long been
thought to be part of the long and slow process begun by Neolithic agriculturalists. In recent …

In The Ecology of Pastoralism, diverse contributions from archaeologists and ethnographers
address pastoralism's significant impact on humanity's basic subsistence and survival …

We who belong to today's post-industrial society can sometimes have difficulty in imagining
how close to the surrounding landscape rural people lived in pre-industrial Europe only a …

The human effects that dominate current ecological and climatic regimes have deep roots.
The origins and spread of farming during the Holocene are increasingly viewed as a turning …

Most early farmers across Europe were descendants of colonists, as were their crops and
livestock (Zohary and Hopf, 2000; Larson et al., 2007; Olalde et al., 2015; Scheu et al., 2015; …

This paper offers an overview of the dispersed elements of social spatiality present in the
rich work about pastoralists and their space, and brings them together under the conceptual …

Infield systems originated during the early Iron Age and existed until the 19th century,
although passing many transitions and changes. The core features of infield systems were …