Thanks to everyone who responded on the pig query - there's an isotope story
too! (no, I'm going to keep you in suspense for a while). my feeling was
that a lot of ideas about pigs are based on medieval sources, and are not
necessarily all that applicable in prehistory, particularly in the early
Neolithic when presumably there was still a significant amount of wildwood -
a habitat I've never seen and am not likely to. At any rate I don't think we
can project medieval pig husbandry back into the remote past without
question, both farming systems and woodland use/management have changed
significantly over time
j
Julie Hamilton
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