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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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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 MethodologyPrimary 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 thematicallyExploiting 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 FaeroesResource 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 ƯPeriod; Emergence of an Original Icelandic Economy or Scandinavian Continuity?; An Atlantic Economic Commonwealth; Emergence of Specialised Workers.
- Exploiting Renewable Resources for Commercial PurposesIcelandic 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.