caa a22 4500 388100982 CHVBK 20180307125320.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199904 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0956793300001667 doi S0956793300001667 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0956793300001667 Animal Husbandry and Agricultural Improvement: The Archaeological Evidence from Animal Bones and Teeth [Elektronische Daten] Agricultural historians have long been aware that a major increase in productivity and output characterised the so-called ‘agricultural revolution'. Usually, however, this has been measured by indirect means: the fact, for example, that English farmers were able to feed some 3 million more people in 1700 than in 1540, and almost 20 million more in 1880 than in 1750. Since mouths were fed without recourse to massive imports -which would have had significant economic implications for the industrial revolution -and since these increases in output were achieved while the agricultural labour force was in steep relative decline, the obvious implication is that productivity was increasing. Measuring such changes has proved complex, partly because data were not collected in a systematic fashion prior to the 1870s, and partly because such evidence as we have relating to prices and rents hardly represents an adequate proxy for productivity. In general terms, the best material has been for the grain acreage, particularly for wheat and barley. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 Davis Simon J. M. Ancient Monuments Laboratory, English Heritage, London, UK. Beckett John V. Department of History, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. Rural History Cambridge University Press 10/1(1999-04), 1-17 0956-7933 10:1<1 1999 10 RUH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793300001667 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793300001667 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Davis Simon J. M. Ancient Monuments Laboratory, English Heritage, London, UK NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Beckett John V. Department of History, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Rural History Cambridge University Press 10/1(1999-04), 1-17 0956-7933 10:1<1 1999 10 RUH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 113775148 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge