As cattle become more important, they compete for the same food as sheep. Hence wars of grazing land between cattle and sheep herders. At Star Carr, for example, through time as the tundra Upper Paleolithic conditions and associated animals of reindeer, bison and wild horse gave way to forests, the animals also reflected this with increasing deer. As agriculture intensifies in temperate environments, dependence on cattle increases. and goats less so. So, as plant crops become more important so too should cattle.
Goats can remain then because they scavenge for other resources.
Upper Paleolithic, specialist reindeer hunting, with tent-huts. . On slide and overhead see where there are no bones, inside the circles. The archaeologists think these areas are where the carcasses lay with the tools and bones surrounding them. 6-10 m apart. Besides individual bone identification, one must quantify them.