Manure matters [[electronic resource] ] : historical, archaeological and ethnographic perspectives / / edited by Richard Jones

• Pubblicazione: Farnham Surrey ; ; Burlington, Vt., : Ashgate Pub. Co., c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (262 p.)
• Disciplina: 630.9
• Soggetto topico: Agriculture, Prehistoric; Manures - History; Archaeology; Ethnoarchaeology; Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: JonesRichard <1969->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Manure matters
• ISBN: 1-317-10110-3; 1-280-57079-2; 9786613600394; 1-4094-4556-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461102603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II