[Sca-cooks] Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 143, Issue 2

[Terry Decker]

On just a glance, The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe,  Plants in 
Neolithic Britain and Beyond, Palaceware Across the Neo-Assyrian Imperial 
Landscape (pg 78, interesting section on the heating values of different 
fuels).  I've got a number of other references, but they are scattered in 
various papers on Neolithic sites.

Bear

I am not surprised that they used ruminant dung -- it has a fair bit of
undigested cellulose. Use of chaff, however -- that's new to me. Any
references?

-- Galefridus


On Sat Mar 3 17:38:08 PST 2018, Terry Decker said:

Archeological evidence suggests that in some locales the chaff is used
as the fuel for cooking and for the Middle East, I expect that dried
dung was commonly used.  The paper Johnna referenced is interesting, but
I need to give it more than a cursory examination.



Bear


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