03870nam 2200481 450 991082817350332120200520144314.01-911188-34-81-911188-32-1(CKB)3840000000340324(Au-PeEL)EBL5247397(CaPaEBR)ebr11503231(OCoLC)1021811211(MiAaPQ)EBC5247397(EXLCZ)99384000000034032420180221h20182018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierFarming transformed in Anglo-Saxon England agriculture in the long eighth century /Mark McKarracherOxford, [England] :Windgather Press,2018.©20181 online resource (165 pages) illustrations, tables1-911188-31-3 Includes bibliographical references.Machine generated contents note:1.The lie of the land --England in the `long eighth century' --Rationale and scope of this study --Beating the bounds: natural environments in the study regions --2.Farm and field --Fields --Meadows --Ploughs --Farms --Conclusions --3.Beast and bone --The importance of sheep --The importance of wool --Conclusions --4.The growth of arable --Settlements and structures --Arable environments --Introducing the charred plant remains --Charred crop deposits and arable growth --Conclusions --5.The changing harvest --Wheat, barley, oat and rye --The accidental harvest --Beyond the cereals --Conclusions --6.Farming transformed.Anglo-Saxon farming has traditionally been seen as the wellspring of English agriculture, setting the pattern for 1000 years to come - but it was more important than that. A rich harvest of archaeological data is now revealing the untold story of agricultural innovation, the beginnings of a revolution, in the age of Bede. Armed with a powerful new dataset, Farming Transformed explores fundamental questions about the minutiae of early medieval farming and its wider relevance. How old were sheep left to grow, for example, and what pathologies did cattle sustain? What does wheat chaff have to do with lordship and the market economy? What connects ovens in Roman Germany with barley maltings in early medieval Northamptonshire? And just how interested were Saxon nuns in cultivating the opium poppy? Farming Transformed is the first book to draw together the variegated evidence of pollen, sediments, charred seeds, animal bones, watermills, corn-drying ovens, granaries and stockyards on an extensive, regional scale. The result is an inter-disciplinary dataset of unprecedented scope and size, which reveals how cereal cultivation boomed, and new watermills, granaries and ovens were erected to cope with - and flaunt - the fat of the land. As arable farming grew at the expense of pasture, sheep and cattle came under closer management and lived longer lives, yielding more wool, dairy goods, and traction power for ploughing. These and other innovations are found to be concentrated at royal, aristocratic and monastic centres, placing lordship at the forefront of agricultural innovation, and farming as the force behind kingdom-formation and economic resurgence in the seventh and eighth centuries.--Source other than the Library of Congress.AgricultureEnglandHistoryEnglandfastEnglandgndHistory.fastAgricultureHistory.630.942McKarracher Mark1681543MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828173503321Farming transformed in Anglo-Saxon England4051017UNINA