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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dufeu, Val (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Fishing villages.
Fish trade.
Commerce > Medieval.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
Commerce > Histoire > 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Villages de pêcheurs > Atlantique Nord, Region de l'.
Poisson (Aliment) > Commerce > Atlantique Nord, Region de l' > Histoire.
Commerce > History > Medieval, 500-1500.
Fishing villages > North Atlantic Region.
Fish trade > North Atlantic Region > History.
North Atlantic Region.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (240 pages).
ISBN:9789048533145

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