A survey of European primitive breeds of sheep.docVIP

A survey This the fleece type) from surviving breeds in place of the more commonly-used skeletal and textile remains. the primitive (i.e. unimproved) sheep of Europe using data (notably Only bone evidence exists for the Neolithic sheep, and its coat is assumed to have been little different from that of the undomesticated wild ancestor. Textile remains show that Bronze Age sheep had less hairy, but still brown, fleeces like those of the Soay sheep that survives feral in the Saint Kilda islands off north west Scotland. Within this less hairy fleece type both textile remains