A complex Neolithic economy: isotope evidence for the circulation of cattle and sheep in the TRB of western Sweden

► Teeth from domestic animals at Neolithic settlement sites in Falbygden, Sweden were analysed for 87Sr/86Sr. ► Cattle and sheep were highly mobile but pigs were mostly local. ► The mobility of cattle is much higher than that of humans. ► West Sweden in the Neolithic was a regional economy, where basic components of subsistence were circulated. ► Probably, cattle also had a particular place in the Neolithic symbolic system.