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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Richard, 1969-

Contributor:

Jones, Richard, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture, Prehistoric.

Manures--History.

Manures.

Archaeology.

Ethnoarchaeology.

Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Farnham Surrey ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Pub. Co., c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, early farmers continuously developed strategies aimed at adding nutritional value to their fields using locally available natural materials. In this book, international scholars working on social, cultural, and economic issues relating to past manure and manuring, use textual, linguistic, archaeological, sci

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-317-10111-1

1-315-59374-2

1-317-10110-3

1-280-57079-2

9786613600394

1-4094-4556-9

9781315593746

OCLC:

779161372