Tag: NE Iberian Peninsula

2,500-Year-Old Roots of Transhumance: Pioneering Study Reveals Iberian Communities’ Seasonal Livestock Movements

A study led by IPHES-CERCA featured in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology demonstrates that Iberian communities in Catalonia practiced seasonal altitudinal movements. The biogeochemical analysis of different stable isotopes applied to a set of sheep teeth from four Catalan archaeological sites has allowed researchers to confirm that, between the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, the agricultural…
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