Rooting for pigfruit. Pig feeding in Neolithic and Iron Age Britain compared

• Autores: Julie Hamilton, Robert E. M. Hedges, Mark Robinson
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 83, Nº 322, 2009, págs. 998-1011
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • "They dream of the acorned swill of the world, the rooting for pigfruit..." Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood.

    Carbon and nitrogen isotopes show a marked change in the diet of British pigs between the Neolithic and the Iron Age. The authors neatly deduce that this was due to the loss of the Neolithic wildwood where pigs were wont to root for fungus amongst the rotting trees