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Author : Jette Arneborg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Man, Culture and Environment in Ancient Greenland written by Jette Arneborg and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Judith Jesch
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 1843837285
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book The Scandinavians from the Vendel Period to the Tenth Century written by Judith Jesch and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnographic studies trace the background to and impact of urbanisation and Christianisation, and the development of royal power, which stimulated the transition from the Viking age to the medieval period. Using the evidence of archaeology, poetry, legal texts and annals, this volume investigates the social, economic and symbolic structures of early Scandinavia at the time of the Viking expansion. The contributors provide an outlineethnography, covering dwellings and settlements, kinship and social relations, law, political structures and external relations, rural and urban economies, and the ideology of warfare. The topics are discussed through case-studies, illustrating the changing scholarly interpretations of this formative period in Scandinavian history. By addressing these key research questions, the contributions trace the background to and the impact of urbanisation and Christianisation, and the development of royal power, which stimulated the transition from the Viking age to the medieval period in Scandinavia. JUDITH JESCH is Professor in Viking Studies at the University of Nottingham. Contributors: LENA HOLMQUIST OLAUSSON, BENTE MAGNUS, E. VESTERGAARD, BIRGIT ARRHENIUS, STEFAN BRINK, LISE BENDER JORGENSEN, SVEND NIELSEN, FRANDS HERSCHEND, NIELS LUND, DAVID N. DUMVILLE, JUDITH JESCH, DENNIS H. GREEN.
Author : Else Ostergaard
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN 13 : 8771244379
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (712 download)
Download or read book Woven into the Earth written by Else Ostergaard and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the century's most spectacular archaeological finds occurred in 1921, a year before Howard Carter stumbled upon Tutankhamun's tomb, when Poul Norlund recovered dozens of garments from a graveyard in the Norse settlement of Herjolfsnaes, Greenland. Preserved intact for centuries by the permafrost, these mediaeval garments display remarkable similarities to western European costumes of the time. Previously, such costumes were known only from contemporary illustrations, and the Greenland finds provided the world with a close look at how ordinary Europeans dressed in the Middle Ages. Fortunately for Norlund's team, wood has always been extremely scarce in Greenland, and instead of caskets, many of the bodies were found swaddled in multiple layers of cast off clothing. When he wrote about the excavation later, Norlund also described how occasional thaws had permitted crowberry and dwarf willow to establish themselves in the top layers of soil. Their roots grew through coffins, clothing and corpses alike, binding them together in a vast network of thin fibers - as if, he wrote, the finds had been literally sewn in the earth. Eighty years of technical advances and subsequent excavations have greatly added to our understanding of the Herjolfsnaes discoveries. Woven into the Earth recounts the dramatic story of Norlund's excavation in the context of other Norse textile finds in Greenland. It then describes what the finds tell us about the materials and methods used in making the clothes. The weaving and sewing techniques detailed here are surprisingly sophisticated, and one can only admire the talent of the women who employed them, especially considering the harsh conditions they worked under. While Woven into the Earth will be invaluable to students of medieval archaeology, Norse society and textile history, both lay readers and scholars are sure to find the book's dig narratives and glimpses of life among the last Vikings fascinating.
Author : Neil Price
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134527705
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book The Archaeology of Shamanism written by Neil Price and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely collection, Neil Price provides a general introduction to the archaeology of shamanism by bringing together recent archaeological thought on the subject. Blending theoretical discussion with detailed case studies, the issues addressed include shamanic material culture, responses to dying and the dead, shamanic soundscapes, the use of ritual architecture and shamanism in the context of other belief systems such as totemism. Following an intial orientation reviewing shamanism as an anthropological construct, the volume focuses on the Northern hemisphere with case studies from Greenland to Nepal, Siberia to Kazakhstan. The papers span a chronological range from Upper Palaeolithic to the present and explore such cross-cutting themes as gender and the body, identity, landscape, architecture, as well as shamanic interpretations of rock art and shamanism in the heritage and cultural identity of indigenous peoples. The volume also addresses the interpretation of shamanic beliefs in terms of cognitive neuroscience and the modern public perception of prehistoric shamanism.
Author : Vagn Fabritius Buchwald
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN 13 : 9788763512541
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Ancient Iron and Slags in Greenland written by Vagn Fabritius Buchwald and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alistair Paterson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315435721
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book A Millennium of Cultural Contact written by Alistair Paterson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive textbook detailing the millennium of cultural contact between European societies and the rest of the world.
Author : Frances Pritchard
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1782979794
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (829 download)
Download or read book Northern Archaeological Textiles written by Frances Pritchard and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the papers from the seventh North-European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles (NESAT), held in Edinburgh in 1999. The themes covered demonstrate a variety of scholarship that will encourage anyone working in this important and stimulating area of archaeology. From the golden robes of a Roman burial, to the fashionable Viking in Denmark, through to the early modern period and more technological aspects of textile-research, these twenty-four papers (five of which are in German) provide a wealth of new information on the study of ancient textiles in northern Europe.
Author : Darcy Morey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521760062
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)
Download or read book Dogs written by Darcy Morey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-12 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dogs provides a comprehensive account of the origins and development of the domestic dog over the past 15,000 years.
Author : Darcy F. Morey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113978871X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (397 download)
Download or read book Dogs written by Darcy F. Morey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the evolution of the dog, from its origins about 15,000 years ago up to recent times. The timing of dog domestication receives attention, with comparisons between different genetics-based models and archaeological evidence. Allometric patterns between dogs and their ancestors, wolves, shed light on the nature of the morphological changes that dogs underwent. Dog burials highlight a unifying theme of the whole book: the development of a distinctive social bond between dogs and people; the book also explores why dogs and people relate so well to each other. Though cosmopolitan in overall scope, the greatest emphasis is on the New World, with an entire chapter devoted to dogs of the arctic regions, mostly in the New World. Discussion of several distinctive modern roles of dogs underscores the social bond between dogs and people.
Author : Lilli Fransen
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN 13 : 8779349013
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (793 download)
Download or read book Medieval Garments Reconstructed written by Lilli Fransen and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume begins with a short introduction by Else Ostergard to the amazing finds of garments from the Norse settlement of Herjolfnes in Greenland. It then features chapters on technique - production of the thread, dyeing, weaving techniques, cutting and sewing - by Anna Norgard. Also included are measurements and drawings of garments, hoods, and stockings, with sewing instructions, by Lilli Fransen. A practical guide to making your own Norse garment!
Author : Michèle Hayeur Smith
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813072778
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Valkyries’ Loom written by Michèle Hayeur Smith and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using textiles to understand gender and economy in Norse societies In The Valkyries’ Loom, Michèle Hayeur Smith examines Viking textiles as evidence of the little-known work of women in the Norse colonies that expanded from Scandinavia across the North Atlantic in the ninth century AD. While previous researchers have overlooked textiles as insignificant artifacts, Hayeur Smith is the first to use them to understand gender and economy in Norse societies of the North Atlantic. This groundbreaking study is based on the author’s systematic comparative analysis of the vast textile collections in Iceland, Greenland, Denmark, Scotland, and the Faroe Islands, materials that are largely unknown even to archaeologists and span 1,000 years. Through these garments and fragments, Hayeur Smith provides new insights into how the women of these island nations influenced international trade by producing cloth (vaðmál); how they shaped the development of national identities by creating clothing; and how they helped their communities survive climate change by reengineering clothes during the Little Ice Age. She supplements her analysis by revealing societal attitudes about weaving through the poem “Darraðarljoð” from Njál’s Saga, in which the Valkyries—Óðin’s female warrior spirits—produce the cloth of history and decide the fates of men and nations. Bringing Norse women and their labor to the forefront of research, Hayeur Smith establishes the foundation for a gendered archaeology of the North Atlantic that has never been attempted before. This monumental and innovative work contributes to global discussions about the hidden roles of women in past societies in preserving tradition and guiding change.
Author : Cordelia Heß, Solveig Marie Wang, Erik Wolf
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111386759
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Colonial Entanglements and the Medieval Nordic World written by Cordelia Heß, Solveig Marie Wang, Erik Wolf and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2025-08-19 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dagfinn Skre
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110421089
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Avaldsnes - A Sea-Kings' Manor in First-Millennium Western Scandinavia written by Dagfinn Skre and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Royal manor Avaldsnes in southwest Norway holds a rich history testified by 13th century sagas and exceptional graves from the first millennium AD. In 2011–12 the settlement was excavated. In this first book from the project crucial results from an international team of 23 scholars are published. The chapters cover a wide array of topics ranging from building-remains and scientific analyses of finds to landownership and ritual manifestations.
Author : Jonathan C. H. King
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773530088
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Arctic Clothing written by Jonathan C. H. King and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Arising from a conference held at the British Museum in 2001, Arctic Clothing of North America - Alaska, Canada, Greenland is a wide-ranging and authoritative account of clothing use in the north. For the first time, contributors include Native and non-Native artists and seamstresses, anthropologists, historians, curators and conservators with expertise in Alaska, Canada and Greenland."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Kirsten A. Seaver
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804749633
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (496 download)
Download or read book Maps, Myths, and Men written by Kirsten A. Seaver and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Vínland Map" first surfaced on the antiquarian market in 1957 and the map's authenticity has been hotly debated ever sincein controversies ranging from the anomalous composition of the ink and the map's lack of provenance to a plethora of historical and cartographical riddles. Maps, Myths, and Men is the first work to address the full range of this debate. Focusing closely on what the map in fact shows, the book contains a critique of the 1965 work The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation; scrutinizes the marketing strategies used in 1957; and covers many aspects of the map that demonstrate it is a modern fake, such as literary evidence and several scientific ink analyses performed between 1967 and 2002. The author explains a number of the riddles and provides evidence for both the identity of the mapmaker and the source of the parchment used, and she applies current knowledge of medieval Norse culture and exploration to counter widespread misinformation about Norse voyages to North America and about the Norse world picture.
Author : Constantinides, Panos
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466616237
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (666 download)
Download or read book Perspectives and Implications for the Development of Information Infrastructures written by Constantinides, Panos and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the same way that infrastructures such as transportation, electricity, sewage, and water supply are widely assumed to be integrators of urban spaces, information infrastructures are assumed to be integrators of information spaces. With the advent of Web 2.0 and new types of information infrastructures such as online social networks and smart mobile platforms, a more in-depth understanding of the various rights to access, use, develop, and modify information infrastructure resources is necessary. Perspectives and Implications for the Development of Information Infrastructures aims at addressing this need by offering a fresh new perspective on information infrastructure development. It achieves this by drawing on and adapting theory that was initially developed to study natural resource commons arrangements such as inshore fisheries, forests, irrigation systems, and pastures, while placing great emphasis on the complex problems and social dilemmas that often arise in the negotiations.
Author : Neil Price
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429632819
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book The Vikings written by Neil Price and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vikings provides a concise but comprehensive introduction to the complex world of the early medieval Scandinavians. In the space of less than 300 years, from the mid-eighth to the mid-eleventh centuries CE, people from what are now Norway, Sweden, and Denmark left their homelands in unprecedented numbers to travel across the Eurasian world. Over the last half-century, archaeology and its related disciplines have radically altered our understanding of this period. The Vikings explores why we now perceive them as a cosmopolitan mix of traders and warriors, craftsworkers and poets, explorers, and settlers. It details how, over the course of the Viking Age, their small-scale rural, tribal societies gradually became urbanised monarchies firmly emplaced on the stage of literate, Christian Europe. In the process, they transformed the cultures of the North, created the modern Nordic nation-states, and left a far-flung diaspora with legacies that still resonate today. Written by leading experts in the period and exploring the society, economy, identity and world-views of the early medieval Scandinavian peoples, and their unique religious beliefs that are still of enduring interest a millennium later, this book presents students with an unrivalled guide through this widely studied and fascinating subject, revealing the fundamental impacts of the Vikings in shaping the later course of European history.
