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Fish Trade in Medieval North Atlantic Societies : An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human Ecodynamics / Val Dufeu.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Early Medieval North AtlanticPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource : 34 halftones, 12 line drawingsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789462983212
  • 9789048533145
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.3727091631 23
LOC classification:
  • HD9465.A2
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I. Introduction -- II. Reviewing Viking Studies and North Atlantic Realm Archaeological Research -- III. Interdisciplinarity and Environmental History: Setting the Methodology -- IV. Sagas and Archives -- V. Modelling the Exploitation of Aquatic Resources and the Emergence of Commercial Fishing in Iceland and the Faeroes -- VI. Geoarchaeology of the Emergence of Commercial Fishing -- VII. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Valérie 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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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I. Introduction -- II. Reviewing Viking Studies and North Atlantic Realm Archaeological Research -- III. Interdisciplinarity and Environmental History: Setting the Methodology -- IV. Sagas and Archives -- V. Modelling the Exploitation of Aquatic Resources and the Emergence of Commercial Fishing in Iceland and the Faeroes -- VI. Geoarchaeology of the Emergence of Commercial Fishing -- VII. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

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Valérie 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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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