Dental pieces of sheep found in the Cueva de El Toro sampled for this study. Credit: Alejandro Sierra, UAB
At the dawn of the Neolithic era, herding communities in the Southern Iberian Peninsula adopted various livestock management tactics, altering breeding, feeding, and migration practices to meet their ecological and production requirements. This is indicated by a study led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona that has reconstructed the feeding practices of the first herding communities occupying the Cueva de El Toro 7,200 years ago, with the aim of exploring their feeding strategies and the socioeconomic factors that could have influenced them.
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