| Fish Trade in Medieval North Atlantic Societies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human Ecodynamics Contributor(s): Dufeu, Val (Author) |
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ISBN: 9462983216 ISBN-13: 9789462983212 Publisher: Amsterdam University Press OUR PRICE: $136.62 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Scandinavia - History | Europe - Medieval |
| Series: Early Medieval North Atlantic |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (1.14 lbs) 254 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Scandinavian - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |