TY  - BOOK
AU  - Poirier,Nicolas
AU  -  Nuninger,Laure
TI  - Techniques for Amending the Soil and Material Components
PY  - 2012///.
							
N1  - 27
N2  - Ever since the 1970s, archaeology continuously enlarged its fields of inquiry, most notably moving away from site-based studies toward territorial approaches. While Anglo-American specialists have started to focus on material gathered off-site during surveys and generally interpreted as traces of manure application, French scientific teams made little use of this type of data in their studies of land use. This paper thus aims at placing the practice of manuring in the wider context of soil improvement operations and their material traces. Using literary sources and data from archaeological digs and iconographical sources, we show that the practice of applying manure to which household waste was added led to the off-site harvesting of pottery shards. Identifying these agrarian manuring episodes is particularly useful when dealing with issues linked to the evolution of agrarian pressure on ecosystems
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-histoire-et-societes-rurales-2012-2-page-11?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -