Fish Trade in Medieval North Atlantic Societies
Val Dufeu
- Title
- Fish Trade in Medieval North Atlantic Societies
- Subtitle
- An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human Ecodynamics
- Author
- Val Dufeu
- Price
- € 123,99
- ISBN
- 9789048533145
- Format
- eBook PDF (Adobe DRM)
- Number of pages
- 260
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 30 - 04 - 2018
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Discipline
- History, Art History, and Archaeology
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- Also available as
- Hardback - € 124,00
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Reviewing Viking Studies and North Atlantic Realm Archaeological Research
Chapter 3: Interdisciplinarity & Environmental History: setting the methodology
Chapter 4: Sagas & Archives
Chapter 5: Modelling the Exploitation of Aquatic Resources and the Emergence of Commercial Fishing in Iceland and the Faeroes
Chapter 6: Geoarchaeology of the Emergence of Commercial Fishing: Testing Historical and Environmental Reconstructions of the Emergence of Commercial Fishing
Chapter 7: Conclusion
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Reviews and Features
"Val Dufeu’s 2018 monograph provides a fascinating grounding on early medieval fish exploitation in Iceland and the Faroe Islands." - Sarah Newstead, Executive Director Atlas Coal Mine National Historic Site, Canada, *Antiquity*, April 2019
Val Dufeu
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 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.
Author
Val Dufeu
Val Dufeu, doctor of medieval and environmental history, is a consultant in geoarchaeology, study of soils, and historical research.
