Tracking the British agricultural revolution through the isotopic analysis of dated parchment.

Tytuł:: Tracking the British agricultural revolution through the isotopic analysis of dated parchment.
Autorzy:: Doherty SP; Department of Archaeology and History, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK. .; Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, UK. .
Alexander MM; Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, UK.
Henderson S; Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Newton J; NERC National Environmental Isotope Facility, Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, East Kilbride, UK.
Finch J; Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, UK.
Collins MJ; Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.; Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Źródło:: Scientific reports [Sci Rep] 2023 Jan 09; Vol. 13 (1), pp. 61. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jan 09.
Typ publikacji:: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Język:: English
Imprint Name(s):: Original Publication: London : Nature Publishing Group, copyright 2011-
MeSH Terms:: Agriculture*/history
Livestock*
Animals ; Population Growth
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Entry Date(s):: Date Created: 20230109 Date Completed: 20230111 Latest Revision: 20230207
Update Code:: 20240105
PubMed Central ID:: PMC9829728
DOI:: 10.1038/s41598-022-26013-4
PMID:: 36624123
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Between the sixteenth and nineteenth century, British agriculture underwent a 'revolutionary' transformation. Yet despite over a century of research and the recognised centrality of agricultural developments to industrialisation and population growth, the character or chronology of any 'revolution' during this period remains contentious. Enquiry has been hampered by the fragmented and locally specific nature of historic accounts and the broad dating of early-modern zooarchaeological assemblages. To address this, we conducted stable isotope analysis on 658 legal documents written on sheepskin parchment; a unique biological resource that records the day, month and year of use (AD 1499 to 1969). We find these provide a high temporal resolution analysis of changing agricultural practices and episodes of disease. Most significantly, they suggest that if an 'Agricultural Revolution' occurred in livestock management, it did so from the mid-nineteenth century, in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars.
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