Manure Matters
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Ancient Field Systems
Ancient Greece
animal
Animal Dung
anthropogenic
Anthropogenic Soils
Background Scatter
Broad Terraces
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Ceramic Cooking Pots
Coprophilous Fungi
cow
Cow Dung
Cultural Formation Processes
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Dorset History Centre
dung
Dung Beetles
Dung Heap
Dung Hill
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Faecal Biomarkers
faeces
human
Hyodeoxycholic Acid
Intensive Manuring Strategies
Long Term Agricultural Experiments
Magnetic Susceptibility Analysis
Midden Sites
Pigeon Dung
sheep
Sheep Dung
soil
Soil DNA
Soil Fertility
Stable Nitrogen Isotopic Analysis
values
Product details
- ISBN 9780754669883
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 16 Apr 2012
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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. 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. Manure really mattered, its collection/creation, storage, and spreading becoming major preoccupations for all agriculturalists no matter what environment they worked or at what period. This book brings together the work of a group of international scholars working on social, cultural, and economic issues relating to past manure and manuring. Contributors use textual, linguistic, archaeological, scientific and ethnographic evidence as the basis for their analyses. The scope of the papers is temporally and geographically broad; they span the Neolithic through to the modern period and cover studies from the Middle East, Britain and Atlantic Europe, and India. Together they allow us to explore the signatures that manure and manuring have left behind, and the vast range of attitudes that have surrounded both substance and activity in the past and present.
Richard Jones is Lecturer in Landscape History in the Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester. He has published widely on settlement history, agriculture, place-naming and nature in the middle ages including The Medieval Natural World (Longman) and two co-authored books Medieval Villages in an English Landscape: Beginnings and Ends (Windgather Press) and Thorps in a Changing Landscape (University of Hertfordshire Press). He is also co-editor of Deserted Villages Revisited (University of Hertfordshire Press) and Sense of Place in Anglo-Saxon England (Shaun Tyas).
