The wood-pasture hypothesis, also known as the Vera hypothesis and the megaherbivore theory is a scientific hypothesis that posits that open and semi-open pastures and wood-pastures formed and maintained by large wild herbivores, rather than primeval forests, would have formed the predominant type of landscape in post-glacial Europe, thus opposing the common belief. As the name Vera hypothesis implies, it was first proposed by Dutch researcher Frans Vera in his book Grazing Ecology and Forest History in 2000 and translated into English in 2002. Vera's ideas were not completely novel at the time. Already two years earlier, Oliver Rackham had published an article in which he criticised the idea of an all-encompassing, dark primeval forest in pre-Neolithic times as envisioned by the majority
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