ABSTRACT
The Iberian Peninsula has for several decades provided a wealth of evidence for studying the origins of the Neolithic. Its location at the western end of the Mediterranean basin has made it an especially important area for the assessment of the dynamics of neolithisation. In northeast Iberia, the dynamics are slightly different, with greater emphasis on domestic species in most of faunal assemblages. Determining when and how animal domestication, or adoption of domesticates, took place in Iberian Peninsula is without doubt of major significance in understanding the origins of the Neolithic. In order to establish the spatial and temporal dynamics of animal domestication in Iberia, This chapter reviews the results of all published zooarchaeological studies on sites with radiocarbon dates but have excluded those where taphonomic problems have been identified. In terms of the frequencies of wild and domestic species, for example, it can be seen that domestic species are relatively more frequent in certain areas of the Iberian Peninsula.
