ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Where the wild things were: how the rise of farming changed human-wildlife relationships
WILDERFARM explores the significant changes in human-wildlife relationships that occurred with the rise of farming in western Europe between 6000 and 2000 BCE. Up until now, research on this period has focused strongly on the domestication of animals and plants and the emergence of the new relationship between humans and domesticates. WILDERFARM shifts the perspective, examining how farmers renegotiated the age-old relationship with wild animals and how the rise of farming and its activities, such as livestock grazing and crop husbandry, affected wildlife. WILDERFARM addresses three critical gaps in current research: wild animals are under-represented in archaeological research compared to…
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