Alan Marshall, who grew up in New Zealand’s sheeplands, explores the inextricable link between human development and sheep. After discussing how their domestication in the Middle East some 15,000 years ago drove the Neolithic transition from hunter-gathering to settled farming, giving rise to the first cities, he follows their dispersal around the globe to become the source of Tudor England’s wealth, and key to the fortunes of Wales.
Human civilisation was not just created by humans: we had the help of many creatures, and foremost among these were sheep. From Argentina to Australia and from Mesopotamia to Mongolia, just about every country with hills and meadows has adopted and then developed sheep farming as a way of living. And in Wales in particular, sheep played a central role in shaping landscape and culture.
Sheeplands outlines the journeys taken by some of these sheep as they voyaged across the world, both by themselves and with human shepherds, from the earliest human settlements to the present day. Along the way, Alan Marshall paints vivid portraits of the roles sheep have played in the development of the modern world, in times of peace and war, and describes how our sheeplands might continue to influence Wales and the wider world in future years.
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