Manure Matters: Historical, Archaeological and Ethnographic Perspectives eBook

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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. 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. Manure really mattered, its collection/creation, storage, and spreading becoming major preoccupations for all agriculturalists no matter what environment they worked or at what period.

This book brings together the work of a group of international scholars working on social, cultural, and economic issues relating to past manure and manuring. Contributors use textual, linguistic, archaeological, scientific and ethnographic evidence as the basis for their analyses. The scope of the papers is temporally and geographically broad

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Manure Matters: Historical, Archaeological and Ethnographic Perspectives is written by Jones, Richard, Dr and published by Ashgate. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Manure Matters: Historical, Archaeological and Ethnographic Perspectives are 9781409445562, 1409445569 and the print ISBNs are 9780754669883, 0754669882.