Agriculture Archive
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The fermented cereal beverage of the Sumerians may not have been beer
Posted on January 31, 2012 | No Comments4000-year-old cuneiform writings from Mesopotamia tell us little about the brewing techniques used at the time -
Meager Returns: Agricultural Wages in Roman Egypt
Posted on January 15, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper will attempt to shed some light on the identity of these unknown Egyptian laborers and also the economy in which they functioned. -
The Early Dynastic Through Old Kingdom Stratification at Tell Er-Rub
Posted on January 4, 2012 | No CommentsBy 4000 BCE, an agricultural subsistence strategy became firmly ensconced in the Egyptian Nile Valley and Delta.This new strategy, probably imported from Western Asia as early as 6000 BCE, began a new age that would rapidly evolve a unified culture bonded by a central authority monitored by a divine king. -
Ancient cooking pots reveal gradual transition to agriculture
Posted on November 1, 2011 | No CommentsHumans may have undergone a gradual rather than an abrupt transition from fishing, hunting and gathering to farming, according to a new study of ancient pottery. -
Herding horses: a model of prehistoric horsemanship in Scandinavia
Posted on August 14, 2011 | No CommentsHerding horses: a model of prehistoric horsemanship in Scandinavia -
The Welfare of Livestock and Work Animals in Ancient Greece and Rome
Posted on August 5, 2011 | No CommentsThe Welfare of Livestock and Work Animals in Ancient Greece and Rome By Liliane Bodson Medical Heritage, Vol.2:4 (1986) Introduction: Animal care and veterinary medicine originated in the early stages... -
Communal Agriculture in the Ptolemaic and Roman Fayyum
Posted on January 31, 2010 | No CommentsCommunal Agriculture in the Ptolemaic and Roman Fayyum Monson, Andrew Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics, October 2007 Abstract The article presents the model that rising demand for land drives the... -
Agriculture in Roman Britain
Posted on January 13, 2010 | No CommentsAgriculture in Roman Britain Applebaum, Shimon Agricultural History Review, Volume 6:2 (1958) Abstract:
