Organic fertilization and sufficient nutrient status in prehistoric agriculture? - Indications from multi-proxy analyses of archaeological topsoil relicts

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Lauer, Franziska ^a   Prost, Katharina ^a   Gerlach, Renate ^b   Pätzold, Stefan ^a   Wolf, Mareike ^a   Urmersbach, Sarah ^a   Lehndorff, Eva ^a   Eckmeier, Eileen ^a,c   Amelung, Wulf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Archaeological Heritage Management Rhineland LVR Amt für Bodendenkmalpflege im Rheinland   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BILE ACID; BLACK CARBON; CHARCOAL; COPPER; IODINE; MANGANESE; MOLYBDENUM; NITROGEN 15; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC FERTILIZER; ORGANIC NITROGEN; SELENIUM; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; STABLE ISOTOPE; STEROID; TRACE ELEMENT; ZINC; CARBON; FERTILIZER; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SOIL; STEROL;

AGRICULTURE; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP PRODUCTION; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; LEGUME; MANURE; NEOLITHIC; NUTRIENT CONTENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREHISTORIC ARABLE SOIL; PREHISTORIC PERIOD; SOIL; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL FERTILIZATION; CHEMISTRY; FECES; FIRE; GERMANY; HISTORY; ORGANIC FARMING;

AMINO ACIDS; ARCHAEOLOGY; BILE ACIDS AND SALTS; CARBON; FECES; FERTILIZERS; FIRES; GERMANY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; NITROGEN; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; ORGANIC AGRICULTURE; PHOSPHORUS; SOIL; STEROLS;

EID: 84907452229     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106244     Document Type: Article

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