Ongoing specialization of crop and livestock systems provides socioeconomic benefits to the
farmer but has led to greater externalization of environmental costs when compared to …

Despite what history has taught us about imperialism's destructive effects on colonial
societies, many classicists continue to emphasize disproportionately the civilizing and …

In this review, the history of breeding for polled cattle is compiled from literature as well as
graphic representations of cattle in art and science. Domesticated taurine cattle originated …

Horses have had a singular impact on human societies. Beyond increasing interconnectivity
and revolutionizing warfare, reconfigurations of human-horse relationships coincide with …

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 …

Throughout the Western provinces of the Roman Empire, greater economic and political
connectivity had a major impact on agricultural production, which grew in scale and …

Integrating zooarchaeological and ancient textual datasets for cattle provides a more
comprehensive picture of breed developments for Roman Italy. Widespread increases in …

This study investigates the relationship between diet and cultural change in late Iron Age
and Romano-British populations from Dorset, England (1st century BC to the early 5th …

This handbook provides advice on best practice for the recovery, publication and archiving
of animal bones and teeth from Holocene archaeological sites (ie from approximately the …

The aim of this paper is to present the results of the biometrical analysis carried out on cattle,
sheep/goat and pig measurements from a number of Spanish archaeological sites, dated …