Experimental data from lacaune and merino sheep provide new methodological and theoretical grounds to investigate autumn lambing in past husbandries

M Balasse, P Chemineau, S Parisot, D Fiorillo… - … Method and Theory, 2024 - Springer
In temperate Europe, sheep predominantly mate in autumn and lamb in the spring. In
contrast, present-day Mediterranean husbandries practice autumn lambing, with benefits in …

Early Dalmatian farmers specialized in sheep husbandry

A Sierra, M Balasse, S Radović, D Orton, D Fiorillo… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
The spread of farming in the central and western Mediterranean took place rapidly, linked to
the Impressa Ware. The Impressa Ware originated somewhere in the southern Adriatic and …

Choose what suits you best: reproductive patterns and livestock management in the Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (3rd c. BC)

C Messana, C Tornero, L Colominas - Archaeological and Anthropological …, 2023 - Springer
Isotopic analyses have proven to be an essential tool for obtaining more comprehensive and
precise knowledge about past livestock strategies. Nevertheless, biogeochemical data for …

Milk and meat exploitation, autumn lambing and use of forest resources in Neolithic Corsican sheep farming systems (fifth to third millennia cal BC)

M Fabre, V Forest, C Ranché, D Fiorillo… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Corsica has been inhabited since the ninth millennium BC, but it is only from the sixth
millennium BC onwards, that Neolithic societies originating from Italy settled mostly along …

[PDF][PDF] duction, reproduction et mobilité des troupeaux, par une approche combinant anatomie comparée et analyses isotopiques (δ18O, δ13C, 87Sr/86Sr) dans l' …

M FABRE - prehistoire.org
La connaissance des pratiques pastorales et des lignées animales traditionnelles est un
enjeu du développement durable en Méditerranée. À l'aube de changements globaux, cette …