Manure matters : historical, archaeological and ethnographic perspectives

Manure matters : historical, archaeological and ethnographic perspectives / edited by Richard Jones.

"In pre-industrial societies in which the majority of the population lived directly off the land, few issues were more important than the maintenance of soil fertility. Manure really mattered, as without access to biodegradable wastes from production processes or to synthetic agrochemicals, ear...

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Other Authors: Jones, Richard, 1969-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2012.
Subjects:
Agriculture, Prehistoric.
Manures > History.
Archaeology.
Ethnoarchaeology.
Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric.
archaeology.
ethnoarchaeology.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Agronomy > Crop Science.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Agronomy > General.
Agriculture, Prehistoric
Archaeology
Ethnoarchaeology
Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric
Manures
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Contributors; 1 Why Manure Matters; 2 Science and Practice: The Ecology of Manure in Historical Retrospect; 3 Middening and Manuring in Neolithic Europe; 4 (Re)cycles of Life in Late Bronze Age Southern Britain; 5 Organic Geochemical Signatures of Ancient Manure Use; 7 Manure and Middens in English Place-Names; 8 The Formation of Anthropogenic Soils Across Three Marginal Landscapes; 9 Zibl and Zira'a: Coming to Terms with Manure in Arab Agriculture; 10 Understanding Medieval Manure
  • 11 Lost Souls: Ethnographic Observations on Manuring Practices in a Mediterranean Community12 Manure, Soil and the Vedic Literature; Postscript; Bibliography; Index

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