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200 00$aManure matters$b[electronic resource] $ehistorical, archaeological and ethnographic perspectives /$fedited by Richard Jones
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aFarnham Surrey ;$aBurlington, Vt. $cAshgate Pub. Co.$dc2012
215   $a1 online resource (262 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-7546-6988-2 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aCover; 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
327   $a11 Lost Souls: Ethnographic Observations on Manuring Practices in a Mediterranean Community12 Manure, Soil and the Vedic Literature; Postscript; Bibliography; Index
330   $aIn 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
606   $aAgriculture, Prehistoric
606   $aManures$xHistory
606   $aArchaeology
606   $aEthnoarchaeology
606   $aLand settlement patterns, Prehistoric
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