Tracking the British agricultural revolution through the isotopic analysis of dated parchment.
dc.contributor.author | Doherty, SP | |
dc.contributor.author | Alexander, MM | |
dc.contributor.author | Henderson, S | |
dc.contributor.author | Newton, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Finch, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Collins, MJ | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-01-18T09:09:47Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-01-09 | |
dc.date.updated | 2023-01-17T16:09:37Z | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Natural Environment Research Council | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | European Research Council | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | AHRC White Rose College of Arts and Humanities Doctoral Training Partnership | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Danish National Research Foundation | en_GB |
dc.format.extent | 61- | |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 13, No. 1, article 61 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-26013-4 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | EK259–14/15 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 295729-CodeX | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 1489527 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | DNRF128 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/132259 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0002-5503-2734 (Doherty, Sean P) | |
dc.identifier | ScopusID: 57203243552 (Doherty, Sean P) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Nature Research | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36624123 | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2023. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Animals | en_GB |
dc.subject | Agriculture | en_GB |
dc.subject | Livestock | en_GB |
dc.subject | Population Growth | en_GB |
dc.title | Tracking the British agricultural revolution through the isotopic analysis of dated parchment. | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2023-01-18T09:09:47Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2045-2322 | |
exeter.article-number | 61 | |
exeter.place-of-publication | England | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available from Nature Research via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.description | Data availability: All data generated in this study are presented in the article and Supplementary Information file. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Scientific Reports | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartof | Sci Rep, 13(1) | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2022-12-07 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2023-01-09 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2023-01-18T09:05:22Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2023-01-18T09:10:45Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2023-01-09 |
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