The enhancement of crop yields through manuring has been attested since early farming prehistory in many parts of the world. This article reviews the history of research into the potential archaeological evidence for this practice in Europe, the Mediterranean lands and the Near East. The focus is on the interpretation of ceramic data recovered in surface field surveys conducted since 1950 and what sorts of activities may be plausibly inferred from them. The article examines the origins of the model, objections to it, and recent analyses which again strengthen it. A particular case-study analyses the evidence for the protohistoric and early historic periods in Greece. The methodological and empirical arguments tend to strongly reaffirm the importance of artificial manuring in agrarian regimes of all periods, and its significance in furthering understandings of economic and demographic history and prehistory.

自世界许多地方的农业史前史以来，通过施肥提高作物产量就得到了证实。本文回顾了欧洲、地中海地区和近东地区对这种做法的潜在考古证据的研究历史。重点是解释自 1950 年以来进行的地表实地调查中回收的陶瓷数据，以及可以从中合理地推断出哪些活动。这篇文章考察了该模型的起源、对它的反对意见，以及最近再次加强它的分析。一个特定的案例研究分析了希腊原始历史时期和早期历史时期的证据。方法论和实证论证倾向于强烈重申人工施肥在所有时期的土地制度中的重要性，