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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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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Dufeu, Val (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
Collection:Early medieval North Atlantic.
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-249) and index.
ISBN:9789048533145
9048533147