单词 | terramare |
释义 | terramaren. An ammoniacal earth found in the valley of the Po, in Italy, and collected as a fertilizer; it occurs in flat mounds, identified as the sites of dwellings of a people of the later neolithic period. Hence transferred (plural) The prehistoric settlements themselves. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > [noun] > site of or for (a) building(s) > prehistoric terp1866 terramare1866 habitation site1925 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > prehistoric dwellings broch1654 crannog1851 pile-building1863 pile-work1863 fascine dwelling1865 lake-habitation1865 palafitte1866 terramare1866 roundhouse1872 mound dwelling1897 wag1911 wheel-dwelling1931 wheelhouse1935 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > use of other natural fertilizers > other natural fertilizers marl1280 pomacec1450 cod's head1545 buck-ashes1563 bucking-ashes1577 guano1604 greaves1614 rape cake1634 muck1660 wool-nipping1669 willow-earth1683 green dressing1732 bone flour1758 bone powder1758 poudrette1764 bone dust1771 green manure1785 fish-manure1788 wassal1797 lime-rubbish1805 Bude sand1808 bone1813 cancerine1840 inch-bones1846 bonemeal1849 silver sand1851 fish guano1857 food1857 terramare1866 kainite1868 fish-flour1879 soil1879 fish-scrap1881 gas lime1882 bean cake1887 inoculant1916 α. β. 1890 T. H. Huxley in 19th Cent. Nov. 761 The pre-historic people of the terremare.1899 R. Munro Prehist. Scotl. vi. 205 Combs of bronze have been found both in the Swiss lake-dwellings and in the Terremare.1899 R. Munro Prehist. Scotl. xi. 434 There is..in the eastern part of the Po Valley another class of ancient habitations known as terremare,..they may be regarded as land palafittes.1928 C. Dawson Age of Gods xiv. 330 With the Bronze Age there appears in North Italy the new and highly distinctive type of culture known as the Terremare. It receives its name from the peculiar pile settlements which form its characteristic feature. Unlike the lake villages the Terremare were built on dry land and surrounded by an artificial moat and rampart.1939 Antiquity 13 490 A terramara is defined by Säflund as ‘a station containing the typical bronze-age culture of central and western Emilia’.1961 L. Mumford City in Hist. viii. 206 It is doubtful if there is any direct connexion between the terremare settlements and the Roman towns.1866–8 S. Baring-Gould Curious Myths Middle Ages (1877) 365 These quarries go by the name of terramares. They are vast accumulations of cinders, charcoal, bones, fragments of pottery. 1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. ii. 55 Relics discovered in gravel-beds, caves, shell-mounds, terramares, lake-dwellings. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < |
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