“…It is relatively well known that landscape "construction" in the European mountains began in Neolithic times. By the middle Holocene, forests had ceased being a continuous element in the landscape, as open lands were relatively frequent due to grazing activity by herbivores (Vera, 2000;Montserrat Recoder, 2009;Navarro and Pereira, 2015;Montserrat-Martí and Gómez-García, 2019) and occasional fires. In Central Europe, for instance, Neolithic people lived in an already open landscape (Kunes et al, 2015;Marquer et al, 2017).…”