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Answer by Daniel Knutson for Was hay invented only in the Middle Ages in Europe?
I too believe Dyson has a point. The use of dried forage grasses may have been known prior to the middle ages, but the practice probably expanded significantly and with greater sophistication during...
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According to another historical account the earliest remains of hay were found in central European archaeological sites from the late stone age. Dyson has the right place but wrong time. The Romans,...
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The Roman writer on agriculture Columella, who died around AD 70, gives a detailed description of the manufacture of hay (Latin: faenum) in his de re rustica 2.18, which reads as follows in the Loeb...
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Answer by Peter Diehr for Was hay invented only in the Middle Ages in Europe?
I think Freeman Dyson may have a point, but his facts seem to lack foundation. One only needs hay for horses that lack sufficient winter pasture for forage.Cattle were domesticated by 6,000 BC, and...
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I stumbled upon the following remark from Freeman Dyson: The most important invention of the last two thousand years was hay. In the classical world of Greece and Rome and in all earlier times, there...
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