Keywords:
Human ecology -- Scandinavia -- History.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
In Human Ecodynamics in the North Atlantic: A Collaborative Model of Humans and Nature through Space and Time, Maher and Harrisonhave compiled a series of separate research projects conducted across the North Atlantic region that each contribute greatly to the area of study.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (254 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780739185483
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=1821907
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Humans-A Force of Nature -- 2 Shaped by the Sea -- 3 The Prehistoric Village of Old Scatness -- 4 Coupled Human and Natural Systems -- 5 Land of the Dead -- 6 Material Culture and North Atlantic Trade in Iceland and Greenland -- 7 Connecting the Land to the Sea at Gásir -- 8 Losing Sleep Counting Sheep -- 9 Sorting Sheep and Goats in Medieval Iceland and Greenland -- 10 Climate-Related Farm-to-Shieling Transition at E74 Qorlortorsuaq in Norse Greenland -- 11 Landscape Legacies of the Icelandic Landnám -- 12 North Atlantic Human Ecodynamics Research -- Index -- About the Contributors.
