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Current evidence indicates that livestock and domesticated crops were first introduced in SW Europe during the 6th millennium BC. However key questions concerning animal husbandry remain unclear:

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• When did animal herding start?

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• What was the scale of herding and its role in the expansion and transformation of early farming?

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• How animal management impacted human-environment relationships and territorial organization of agro-pastoral communities?

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The project GeoFodder seeks to shed some light on these questions by exploring early livestock diets and herding practices from the Neolithic through to the Bronze Age.

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Sheep and goat herding in Northeast Iberia. Image courtesy of J. M. Vergès.

GeoFodder is a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions (MSCA-IF). Grant Agreement No. 750831.