FIORILLO , Denis

Herd mobility is a key parameter of many agro-pastoral strategies. Sequential variationsof oxygen, carbon and strontium isotope ratios in ruminant teeth are commonly used forcharacterizing herd mobility along altitudinal gradients and across geological areas. Towhat extent is the variation and covariation of isotopic ratios along a tooth...

The exploitation of montane ecosystems by agro-pastoral communities has played an important role in the development of thesesocieties in the Caucasus. Mountains can be constraining in winter as snow prevents access to pastures and constrains animal husbandry,but they also provide access to natural resources such as copper ores, obsidian and...

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L'exploitation des écosystèmes montagnards par les communautés agro-pastorales a joué un rôle important dans le développement de ces sociétés dans le Caucase. Donnant accès à des matières premières tel que l'obsidienne et des minerais de cuivre nécessaires à la confection d'outils, les montagnes offrent aussi aux éleveurs de nombreux pâturages...

The exploitation of mountain ecosystems by agro-pastoral communities has played an important role in the development of these societies in the Caucasus. Providing access to raw materials such as obsidian and copper ores needed for tools, the mountains also offer herders ample pasture for their flocks. Nevertheless, in winter, these...

Mountainous territories represent a large part of the region both in the Greater and Lesser Caucasus mountains ranges. Although in the Neolithic period settlements in the highland areas are not numerous in South Caucasus, they increase during the Chalcolithic period until the establishment of villages at the beginning of the Bronze Age. Through...

Regulation of fertility is an important aspect of reproductive control in farm animals which have inherited vestiges of seasonal reproduction from their wild ancestors. Cattle and sheep seem to have followed different paths in this respect. Like the current representatives of their wild ancestor the oriental mouflon, modern sheep under...

Agropastoral systems in the Mediterranean take a great variety of forms in response to a wide range of climatic, orographic and socioeconomic contexts. The predominance of caprines (sheep and goat) is a frequent common feature, and a particularity is the existence of autumn lambing. Annual rhythms of pastoral systems are strongly determined by...