Title: Manure matters : historical, archaeological and ethnographic perspectives /
Authors: Jones, Richard, 1969-
Publisher: Ashgate,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Agriculture, Prehistoric.; Manures History.; Archaeology; Ethnoarchaeology.; Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric.
Contents: Why manure matters -- Science and practice : the ecology of manure in historical retrospect -- Middening and manuring in neolithic Europe : issues of plausibility, intensity and archaeological method -- (Re)cycles of life in late Bronze Age Southern Britain -- Organic geochemical signatures of ancient manure use -- Dung and stable manure on waterlogged archaeological occupation sites : some ruminations on the evidence from plant and invertebrate remains -- Manure and middens in English place-names -- The formation of anthropogenic soils across three marginal landscapes on Fair Isle and in the Netherlands and Ireland -- Zibl and Zirā{u2019}a : coming to terms with manure in Arab agriculture -- Understanding medieval manure -- Lost souls : ethnographic observations on manuring practices in a Mediterranean community -- Manure, soil and the Vedic literature : agricultural knowledge and practice on the Indian subcontinent over the last two millennia.