Fish trade in Medieval North Atlantic societies : an interdisciplinary approach to human ecodynamics /
Val Dufeu here reconstructs settlement patterns of fishing communities in Viking Age Iceland and proposes socio-economic and environmental models relevant to any study of the Vikings or the North Atlantic. She integrates written sources, geoarchaeological data, and zooarchaeological data to examine...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press
[2018]
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| Serier: | Early medieval North Atlantic.
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| Online adgang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv233pfj |
| Summary: | Val Dufeu here reconstructs settlement patterns of fishing communities in Viking Age Iceland and proposes socio-economic and environmental models relevant to any study of the Vikings or the North Atlantic. She integrates written sources, geoarchaeological data, and zooarchaeological data to examine how fishing propelled political change in the North Atlantic. The evolution of survival fishing to internal fish markets to overseas fish trade mirrors wider social changes in the Vikings? world. |
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| Fysisk beskrivelse: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografi: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-249) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789048533145 9048533147 9462983216 9789462983212 |