Manure

Early Scottish farmers didn’t need manure

(ORDO NEWS) — The farmers of the European Neolithic everywhere fertilized their fields with the waste products of livestock. But it turned out that some of them did not approve of such a “fragrant” way of farming – or simply did not need it. In the late 1970s, archaeologists found the remains of a burned-out wooden house in the east of Scotland. Now this place is known as Balbridey – one of the early Neolithic settlements, dating from the first…