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Atlantic Connections and Adaptations - Economies, environments and subsistence in lands bordering the North Atlantic (Paperback)
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Atlantic Connections and Adaptations - Economies, environments and subsistence in lands bordering the North Atlantic (Paperback)
Series: Symposia of the Association for Environmental Archaeology, 21
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Maritime communications have played a vital role in shaping both
human cultures and the biogeography of the North Atlantic Realm, a
region containing discrete groups of islands separated by deep
water. The aim of this volume is to explore the diversity of human
environments and cultural adaptations present within the eastern
part of the North Atlantic Realm, from Scotland and Norway in the
East to Iceland in the West. The papers explore a number of key
themes, including: the origins of flora and fauna of the North
Atlantic Realm and the introduction of non-indigenous species in
post-glacial periods; the various stages of human colonisation,
from the explorations of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in the
Hebridean islands to the Norse settlement of the Faroes, Iceland
and Greenland during the 8th to 10th centuries AD, and how each
stage of colonisation has had its own ecological characteristics
and consequences for indigenous flora and fauna; the influence of
climatic variability and extreme episodic events on local
environments and human settlement patterns; and the establishment
and development of human exchange and trade networks and how they
have affected the range of resources available for human
exploitation, from agricultural domesticates to the development of
the Flemish sea fishery. These papers were presented at the first
joint meeting of the Association for Environmental Archaeology
(AEA) and the North Atlantic Bio-cultural Organisation (NABO),
which was held at Glasgow University in March 2001.
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