Mycobacterium bovis is the main causative agent of zoonotic tuberculosis in humans and
frequently devastates livestock and wildlife worldwide. Previous studies suggested the …

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 …

Geometric morphometrics can effectively distinguish isolated third lower molars of present-
day sheep and goat, but its applicability to archaeological specimens has yet to be …

Animal mobility is a common strategy to overcome scarcity of food and the related over-
grazing of pastures. It is also essential to reduce the inbreeding rate of animal populations …

There are strong interactions between an economic system and its ecological context. In this
sense, livestock have been an integral part of human economies since the Neolithic …

A system of farming with an alternation of land use between being cultivated or left fallow as
grassland (Feldgraswirtschaft) developed in southwestern Germany since the Bronze Age. It …

The political and administrative unification process under the Roman Empire resulted not
only in a progressive linguistic, religious, and cultural homogenisation of the concerned …

Depuis plus de 50 ans, dans le domaine de l'archéozoologie française et européenne, les
études et les données relatives à la taille des animaux domestiques s' accumulent de …

Osteometric data and morphological observations on cattle bones from Roman period sites
from present-day Austria suggest the arrival of a new large-sized cattle population, which …