Manure Matters: Historical, Archaeological and Ethnographic PerspectivesRichard Jones This text brings together the work of a group of international scholars working on issues relating to past manure and manuring. The scope of the papers is temporally, geographically and culturally broad; they span the Neolithic through to the modern period and cover studies from the Middle East, mainland and Atlantic Europe, and India. |
Contents
The Ecology of Manure in Historical | 13 |
Figures | 21 |
Tables | 26 |
Recycles of Life in Late Bronze Age Southern Britain | 41 |
1 | 42 |
6 | 50 |
Organic Geochemical Signatures of Ancient Manure Use | 61 |
1 | 62 |
Dung and Stable Manure on Waterlogged Archaeological | 79 |
Manure and Middens in English PlaceNames | 97 |
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