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Human Ecodynamics in the North Atlantic
A Collaborative Model of Humans and Nature through Space and Time
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2014
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In Human Ecodynamics in the North Atlantic: A Collaborative Model of Humans and Nature through Space and Time, Ramona Harrison and Ruth A. Maherhave compiled a series of separate research projects conducted across the North Atlantic region that each contribute greatly to anthropological archaeology. This book assembles a regional model through which the reader is presented with a vivid and detailed image of the climatic events and cultures which have occupied these seas and lands for roughly a 5000-year period. It provides a model of adaptability, resilience, and sustainability that can be applied globally.
First, visiting the Northern Isles of Scotland in the Orkney Islands, the reader is taken through the archaeology from the Neolithic Period through World War II in the face of sea-level rise and rapidly eroding coastlines. The Shetland Islands then reveal a deep-time study of one large-scale Iron Age excavation. On to the northern coasts of Norway, where information about late medieval maritime peoples is explained. Iceland explores human–environment interaction and implications of climate change presented from the Viking Age through the Early Modern Era. Rounding out the North Atlantic Region is Greenland, which sheds light on the Norse in the late Viking Age and the Middle Ages.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-8547-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-8548-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
234
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
List of Figures and Tables No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
1 Humans—A Force of Nature No access Pages 1 - 20
2 Shaped by the Sea No access Pages 21 - 34
3 The Prehistoric Village of Old Scatness No access Pages 35 - 54
4 Coupled Human and Natural Systems No access Pages 55 - 78
5 Land of the Dead No access Pages 79 - 100
6 Material Culture and North Atlantic Trade in Iceland and Greenland No access Pages 101 - 116
7 Connecting the Land to the Sea at Gásir No access Pages 117 - 136
