LEADER 03870nam 2200481 450 001 9910797001303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-911188-34-8 010 $a1-911188-32-1 035 $a(CKB)3840000000340324 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5247397 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11503231 035 $a(OCoLC)1021811211 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5247397 035 $a(EXLCZ)993840000000340324 100 $a20180221h20182018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aFarming transformed in Anglo-Saxon England $eagriculture in the long eighth century /$fMark McKarracher 210 1$aOxford, [England] :$cWindgather Press,$d2018. 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (165 pages) $cillustrations, tables 311 $a1-911188-31-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $gMachine generated contents note:$g1.$tThe lie of the land --$tEngland in the `long eighth century' --$tRationale and scope of this study --$tBeating the bounds: natural environments in the study regions --$g2.$tFarm and field --$tFields --$tMeadows --$tPloughs --$tFarms --$tConclusions --$g3.$tBeast and bone --$tThe importance of sheep --$tThe importance of wool --$tConclusions --$g4.$tThe growth of arable --$tSettlements and structures --$tArable environments --$tIntroducing the charred plant remains --$tCharred crop deposits and arable growth --$tConclusions --$g5.$tThe changing harvest --$tWheat, barley, oat and rye --$tThe accidental harvest --$tBeyond the cereals --$tConclusions --$g6.$tFarming transformed. 330 8 $aAnglo-Saxon farming has traditionally been seen as the wellspring of English agriculture, setting the pattern for 1000 years to come - but it was more important than that. A rich harvest of archaeological data is now revealing the untold story of agricultural innovation, the beginnings of a revolution, in the age of Bede. Armed with a powerful new dataset, Farming Transformed explores fundamental questions about the minutiae of early medieval farming and its wider relevance. How old were sheep left to grow, for example, and what pathologies did cattle sustain? What does wheat chaff have to do with lordship and the market economy? What connects ovens in Roman Germany with barley maltings in early medieval Northamptonshire? And just how interested were Saxon nuns in cultivating the opium poppy? Farming Transformed is the first book to draw together the variegated evidence of pollen, sediments, charred seeds, animal bones, watermills, corn-drying ovens, granaries and stockyards on an extensive, regional scale. The result is an inter-disciplinary dataset of unprecedented scope and size, which reveals how cereal cultivation boomed, and new watermills, granaries and ovens were erected to cope with - and flaunt - the fat of the land. As arable farming grew at the expense of pasture, sheep and cattle came under closer management and lived longer lives, yielding more wool, dairy goods, and traction power for ploughing. These and other innovations are found to be concentrated at royal, aristocratic and monastic centres, placing lordship at the forefront of agricultural innovation, and farming as the force behind kingdom-formation and economic resurgence in the seventh and eighth centuries.--$cSource other than the Library of Congress. 606 $aAgriculture$zEngland$xHistory 607 $aEngland$2fast 607 $aEngland$2gnd 608 $aHistory.$2fast 615 0$aAgriculture$xHistory. 676 $a630.942 700 $aMcKarracher$b Mark$01501069 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797001303321 996 $aFarming transformed in Anglo-Saxon England$93728072 997 $aUNINA