ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the appearance of domestic animals in Italy and the adjacent parts of Istria in Slovenia, the Tyrrhenian Islands and the coasts and hinterlands of southern France. Goats and domestic pigs were a feature of part of the earliest agriculture in peninsular Italy, Istria, Corsica and Sardinia but may not have been included in the first movement west into Liguria, Provence and Languedoc. In Istria and Friuli, and in parts of Provence and Languedoc, outlying cave sites have species frequencies and/or exploitation strategies that differ from those at larger open-air sites in the region. Pupicina is Middle Neolithic in terms of the Balkan cultural sequence but is listed as Early Neolithic (EN) here because it is at the start of the Neolithic sequence in Friuli-Istria. The chapter concludes that continuity from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic is not visible anywhere in the region. In much of the region, domestic animals were introduced by immigrant farmers.
