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N. F. Miller

The Use of Dung as Fuel : an Ethnographic Example and an

Archaeological ApplicationIn: Palorient. 1984, Vol. 10 N2. pp. 71-79.

Abstract

Modern plant use and garbage disposal practices in an Iranian village were observed in order to provide a framework for the

interpretation of plant remains from ancient Malyan, a third millennium B.C. urban center in southern Iran. The

ethnoarchaeological model suggested that many carbonized seeds originate in dung cake fuel. By applying this proposition to the

archaeobotanical material from Malyan, it was possible to corroborate the evidence provided by the independent charcoal

analysis for progressive deforestation during the third millennium.

Rsum

Une tude des diffrentes utilisations de plantes et des pratiques d'enlvements d'ordures dans un village iranien sert de cadre

pour une interprtation des rsidus vgtaux recueillis Tepe Malyan, centre urbain du 3e millnaire du sud de l'Iran. Le modle

ethnoarchologique propos suggre que beaucoup de graines carbonises proviennent du combustible (pains d'excrments

animaux). En appliquant cette proposition au matriel archobotanique de T. Malyan, il devint possible de corroborer ces

rsultats ceux obtenus indpendamment par l'analyse des restes de charbons de bois qui indiquent un dboisement continu au

cours du 3e millnaire.

Citer ce document / Cite this document :

Miller N. F. The Use of Dung as Fuel : an Ethnographic Example and an Archaeological Application. In: Palorient. 1984, Vol.

10 N2. pp. 71-79.

doi : 10.3406/paleo.1984.941

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