Pigs were everywhere: under the houses, between the palisades, at the landing stages. When the herdsmen hadn’t driven them into the riverside woodland or onto the harvested fields to forage, they fed on the village community’s waste. Like the sheep and cattle, they were smaller than today’s domestic pigs, as well as leaner and longer-legged. Compared to their wild relatives, their snouts had receded somewhat. In some settlements, however, such as Unteruhldingen and the moated castle of Buchau, there were evidently also cases of regression: due to intensive forest grazing, domestic pigs mated with wild boars, which in turn resulted in back ridges and withers heights of 85 centimetres and more. The reconstructions in this house’s enclosure are based on archaeological evidence of such crossbreeding.