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thursday 20 february 2025
Automatically translated from Basque, translation may contain errors. More information here. 
7,300 years of herd in the Pyrenees
- In 2009 the cave of Els Trocs was discovered in Huesca, in the municipality of San Feliu de Veri-Bisaurri. The consequences of a massacre in the area were found, among other things, on the spot.
(arg.: M. Roko / J.I. Royo)
But recently, through a study, thousands of remains found on site have been analyzed, most of them sheep remains, and in the Neolithic, about 7,300 years ago it was concluded that humans carried the flocks. Therefore, the oldest tests of tranhsumancy in Europe are those found in Els Trocs.
In addition, although the oldest remains correspond to that time, bone remains of about 5,000 years old have also been located. This means that transhumance was not punctual, but an activity that lasted for at least two millennia.
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