Our ancestors were a lot more pragmatic when it came to the possible use of body waste than we are in our lavender fresh and sanitised world.

Downside would be the disease implications of lots of festering faeces smeared across the countryside.

But I'm sure if a modern farmer uses this method it is likley to have been used in generations past!

I am of the notion that the answers to the 'mysteries' of the ancients are here and now, all it take is learning to look at things from a different perspective. To try and unlearn the modern. How a human solved the problem THEN is how a human would solve the problem NOW.

FTC