Fish trade in medieval North Atlantic societies : an interdisciplinary approach to human ecodynamics
Val Dufeu
Bok · Engelsk · 2018
| Omfang | 254 s. : ill., kart
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| Opplysninger | Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I Introduction -- Fishing in the North Atlantic Scandinavian World: A Human-Environment Approach to the Role and Place of Iceland and the Faeroes -- II Reviewing Viking Studies and North Atlantic Realm Archaeological Research -- Iceland -- Archaeological Research and Environmental Sciences Studies Related to Fish in Viking Age and Medieval Iceland -- The Faeroes -- The Faeroes and Environmental Sciences Research -- Archaeo-ichthyological Research -- Fishing and Fishing Communities: Anthropological, Archaeological and Historical Approaches -- III Interdisciplinarity and Environmental History: Setting the Methodology -- Primary Sources -- Environmental History and Theories -- Consilience -- Historicism, Materialism, Functionalism and Behaviourism -- Economics and Anthropology -- Environmental Archives -- Geoarchaeology and Micromorphology -- Zooarchaeology -- A Holistic Approach -- IV Sagas and Archives -- Part 1: Icelandic and Faeroese primary sources and the writing of history -- Sagas -- Íslendinga sögur, The Sagas of the Icelanders -- Landnámabók or Book of Settlement -- Grágás and Íslendingabók -- Church & Public Records: Diplomatarium Islandicum -- Part 2: Reading the sources thematically -- Exploiting Sea and Rivers -- Fishermen and Those involved in Fishing -- Traders and Commercial Partnerships -- Ship and Cargo -- Icelanders and Norwegian kings -- V Modelling the Exploitation of Aquatic Resources and the Emergence of Commercial Fishing in Iceland and the Faeroes -- The Climate and Geography of Iceland -- The Climate and Geography of the Faeroes -- Marginality and Rationality as a Conceptual Framework -- Marginality: Adaptation and Resilience -- Behaviour and Rationality -- Environmental Factors and the Norse Pioneers of Iceland and the Faeroes Environmental Determinism and the Settlement of Iceland and the Faeroes -- Resource Possibilism and the Settlement of Iceland and the Faeroes -- Exploitation of Aquatic Systems -- Icelandic and Faeroes Waters -- Off shore, Inshore and Riverine Fish Resources -- Marine Species -- Riverine Species -- Economic Commonwealth: Core and Periphery within the North Atlantic Realm -- Economic Patterns from the Later Iron Age to the Medieval Period -- Emergence of an Original Icelandic Economy or Scandinavian Continuity? -- An Atlantic Economic Commonwealth -- Emergence of Specialised Workers -- Exploiting Renewable Resources for Commercial Purposes -- Icelandic and Faeroese Merchants? -- Regulating the Trade and Fishing Rights: Sea and Riverine Rights -- Trading Network -- National-Regional Trade, Markets and Fair: Alþíng og Þíng -- Fishing and Settlement Patterns -- High Status Farm - Coastal and Inland -- Mid-Rank Farm -- Fishing Stations -- Gender Exploitation of Ecosystems -- Church and Fish -- Icelandic Seafaring -- Navigation Skills -- Ship and Seafaring Regulations -- Iceland and the European Fish Markets -- VI Geoarchaeology of the Emergence of Commercial Fishing -- Testing Historical and Environmental Reconstructions of the Emergence of Commercial Fishing -- Geo-archaeology: Understanding Human Economic History through the Use of Landscape -- Identifying Settlement Patterns -- The Soils of Iceland -- Micromorphology: Investigating Human Economic Patterns through Soil Analysis -- Methodology -- Zooarchaeology: Understanding Human Economic Behaviour through Bone Finds -- Bone Recovery: Archaeological Contexts -- Methodology -- The Norse Fish Horizon -- Reconstructing Commercial Fishing: Case Studies -- Árneshreppur, Strandasýsla, North West Iceland -- Gjögur -- Akurvík -- The Westfjords: Vatnsfjörður -- Mývatnssveit: Skútustaðir -- The Faeroes -- Undir Junkarinsfløtti -- Á Sondum -- Environmental Archives and Human behaviour: modelling fish based paleo-economies in Iceland and the Faeroes -- VII Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- List of Figures, Maps, Photos, Plates and Tables
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| Geografisk emneord | Atlanterhavet . - Island
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| ISBN | 9789462983212
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