The Ethnoarchaeology of pig husbandry in Sardinia and Corsica - Introduction

Management & Seasonality

Ecology & Evolution

Output & Acknowledgements

The aim of this project is to study surviving traditional systems of pig keeping in Sardinia and Corsica, which can help our understanding of the archaeological evidence for pig domestication and husbandry.

Staff

The project is co-directed by Umberto Albarella (Dept of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, UK) and Filippo Manconi (Tempio Pausania, Sardinia, Italy), but has benefited from the help of many colleagues and friends (see below for full acknowledgements).

History of the Project

The idea for this project was born as early as 1986, but a pilot ethnoarchaeological study could only be carried out in 2002. This was based in northern Sardinia and southern Corsica and was part of a larger project on the Archaeology of Pig Domestication and Husbandry funded by the AHRC. In 2005 funding from the British Academy allowed us to move the focus of our project to central Sardinia, the area where the most traditional practices and the purest local breeds still survive.