Human Ecodynamics in the North Atlantic

A Collaborative Model of Humans and Nature through Space and Time
Herausgeber: Harrison, Ramona; Maher, Ruth A.

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Produktbeschreibung

In Human Ecodynamics in the North Atlantic: A Collaborative Model of Humans and Nature through Space and Time, Ramona Harrison and Ruth A. Maher have compiled a series of separate research projects conducted across the North Atlantic region that each contribute greatly to anthropological archaeology. This book assembles a regional model through which the reader is presented with a vivid and detailed image of the climatic events and cultures which have occupied these seas and lands for roughly a 5000-year period. It provides a model of adaptability, resilience, and sustainability that can be applied globally. First, visiting the Northern Isles of Scotland in the Orkney Islands, the reader is taken through the archaeology from the Neolithic Period through World War II in the face of sea-level rise and rapidly eroding coastlines. The Shetland Islands then reveal a deep-time study of one large-scale Iron Age excavation. On to the northern coasts of Norway, where information about late medieval maritime peoples is explained. Iceland explores human-environment interaction and implications of climate change presented from the Viking Age through the Early Modern Era. Rounding out the North Atlantic Region is Greenland, which sheds light on the Norse in the late Viking Age and the Middle Ages.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 568g
• ISBN-13: 9780739185476
• ISBN-10: 0739185470
• Artikelnr.: 41247045

Autorenporträt

Edited by Ramona Harrison and Ruth A. Maher - Contributions by Colin Amundsen; Julie M. Bond; Stephen J. Dockrill; Andrew J. Dugmore; Julie Gibson; Ramona Harrison; Megan Hicks; Aaron Kendall; Ruth A. Maher; Thomas H. McGovern; Konrad Smiarowski and Richa

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Preface List of Figures and Tables 1. Humans: A Force of
Nature Ruth A. Maher and Ramona Harrison 2. Shaped by the Sea: the
Archaeology of Orkney's Maritime Communities Julie Gibson 3. The
Prehistoric Village Old Scatness: A Research Study in Longevity,
Ecodynamics and Interactions Stephen J. Dockrill and Julie M. Bond 4.
Coupled Human and Natural Systems: a New Perspective on Early Fishing and
Fishing Cultures of Northern Norway Colin Amundsen 5. Land of the Dead:
Human Ecodynamics of Ritual and Belief in Viking Period Iceland Ruth A.
Maher 6. Material Culture and North Atlantic Trade in Iceland and Greenland
Aaron Kendall 7. Connecting the Land to the Sea at Gásir: International
Exchange and Long-Term Eyjafjörður Ecodynamics in Medieval Iceland Ramona
Harrison 8. Losing Sleep Counting Sheep: Early Modern Dynamics of Hazardous
Husbandry in Mývatn, Iceland Megan Hicks 9. Sorting Sheep & Goats in
Medieval Iceland and Greenland: Local Subsistence, Climate Change or World
System Impacts? Thomas H. McGovern, Ramona Harrison, Konrad Smiarowski 10.
Climate-Related Farm-to-Shieling Transition at E74 Qorlortorsuaq in Norse
Greenland Konrad Smiarowski 11. Landscape legacies of Landnám in Iceland:
What has happened to the environment as a result of settlement, why did it
happen and what have been some of the consequences Andrew J. Dugmore,
Thomas H. McGovern and Richard Streeter 12. North Atlantic Human
Ecodynamics Research: Looking forwards from the past Thomas H. McGovern
Index About the Authors