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Book Synopsis The Birsay Bay Project Volume 3 by : Christopher D. Morris
Download or read book The Birsay Bay Project Volume 3 written by Christopher D. Morris and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brough of Birsay was the power-center of the Viking earldom of Orkney and is one of Historic Environment Scotlands key monuments and visitor attractions on the islands. This publication is the culmination of 60 years of investigations that took place on the site between 1954 and 2014. This new volume incorporates comprehensive accounts of work undertaken by Dr Ralegh Radford and Mr Stewart Cruden between 1954 and 1964, excavations by the Viking and Early Settlement Research Project under the direction of the author on site between 1974 and 1981, a rescue excavation in 1993, a geophysical survey in 2007 and archival research up to 2014. Specialist artefactual and palaeobiological studies of metallurgical material, ogham inscriptions and a gilt-bronze mount of Insular origin are included, together with re-analysis of the radiocarbon dates from all sites in Birsay Bay, and a re-assessment of the architecture and dating of the church and related buildings on the Brough itself. The final two chapters put the Brough, as both a Pictish power-center and the hub of the Viking earldom, in the overall context of Birsay Bay and Viking and late Norse Orkney, and the wider world between the Pictish and late Norse/Medieval periods. As well as being the authors third and final volume reporting on work for the Birsay Bay Project, this volume completes a trilogy of studies of the Brough itself, alongside Mrs Cecil Curles and Prof John Hunters earlier monographs.
Download or read book Northscapes written by Dolly Jørgensen and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2013-11-08 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the unique environments of the North have been borne of the relationship between humans and nature. Approaching the topic through the lens of environmental history, the contributors examine a broad range of geographies, including those of Iceland and other islands in the Northern Atlantic, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the Pacific Northwest, and Canada, over a time span ranging from CE 800 to 2000. Northscapes is bound together by the intellectual project of investigating the North both as an imagined and mythologized space and as an environment shaped by human technology. The North offers a valuable analytical framework that surpasses nation-states and transgresses political and historical borders. This volume develops rich explorations of the entanglements of environmental and technological history in the northern regions of the globe
Book Synopsis Youth and Age in the Medieval North by : Shannon Lewis-Simpson
Download or read book Youth and Age in the Medieval North written by Shannon Lewis-Simpson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary volume explores social, cultural and biological definitions of youth and age specific to the medieval north, and changing mentalities towards youth and age as a result of political, cultural, and religious transformations in the north.
Book Synopsis Playing with Things: The archaeology, anthropology and ethnography of human–object interactions in Atlantic Scotland by : Graeme Wilson
Download or read book Playing with Things: The archaeology, anthropology and ethnography of human–object interactions in Atlantic Scotland written by Graeme Wilson and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study represents a reappraisal of the relationship between play — an activity which is most often understood in terms of something ‘set apart’ — and everyday life. Via a series of archaeological, anthropological and ethnographic investigations, it leads towards the conclusion that play is not in fact so separate as is often assumed.
Download or read book British and Irish Archaeology written by and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Case Studies in Human Ecology by : Daniel G. Bates
Download or read book Case Studies in Human Ecology written by Daniel G. Bates and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume was developed to meet a much noted need for accessible case study material for courses in human ecology, cultural ecology, cultural geography, and other subjects increasingly offered to fulfill renewed student and faculty interest in environmental issues. The case studies, all taken from the journal Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Jouma~ represent a broad cross-section of contemporary research. It is tempting but inaccurate to sug gest that these represent the "Best of Human Ecology." They were selected from among many outstanding possibilities because they worked well with the organization of the book which, in turn, reflects the way in which courses in human ecology are often organized. This book provides a useful sample of case studies in the application of the perspective of human ecology to a wide variety of problems in dif ferent regions of the world. University courses in human ecology typically begin with basic concepts pertaining to energy flow, feeding relations, ma terial cycles, population dynamics, and ecosystem properties, and then take up illustrative case studies of human-environmental interactions. These are usually discussed either along the lines of distinctive strategies of food pro curement (such as foraging or pastoralism) or as adaptations to specific habitat types or biomes (such as the circumpolar regions or arid lands).
Book Synopsis A Pictish Panorama by : Eric H. Nicoll
Download or read book A Pictish Panorama written by Eric H. Nicoll and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sage-book of the Viking Club by : Viking Society for Northern Research
Download or read book Sage-book of the Viking Club written by Viking Society for Northern Research and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in v. 3, 5.
Book Synopsis Saga Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research by : Viking Society for Northern Research
Download or read book Saga Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research written by Viking Society for Northern Research and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in v. 3, 5.
Book Synopsis Crossing Boundaries by : Eric Cambridge
Download or read book Crossing Boundaries written by Eric Cambridge and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interdisciplinary studies are increasingly widely recognised as being among the most fruitful approaches to generating original perspectives on the medieval past. In this major collection of 27 papers, contributors transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries to offer new approaches to a number of themes ranging in time from late antiquity to the high Middle Ages. The main focus is on material culture, but also includes insights into the compositional techniques of Bede and the Beowulf-poet, and the strategies adopted by anonymous scribes to record information in unfamiliar languages. Contributors offer fresh insights into some of the most iconic survivals from the period, from the wooden doors of Sta Sabina in Rome to the Ruthwell Cross, and from St Cuthbert’s coffin to the design of its final resting place, the Romanesque cathedral at Durham. Important thematic surveys reveal early medieval Welsh and Pictish carvers interacting with the political and intellectual concerns of the wider Insular and continental world. Other contributors consider what it is to be Viking, revealing how radically present perceptions shape our understanding of the past, how recent archaeological work reveals the inadequacy of the traditional categorisation of the Vikings as ‘incomers’, and how recontextualising Viking material culture can lead to unexpected insights into famous historical episodes such as King Edgar’s boat trip on the Dee. Recent landmark finds, notably the runic-inscribed Saltfleetby spindle whorl and the sword pommel from Beckley, are also published here for the first time in comprehensive analyses which will remain the fundamental discussions of these spectacular objects for many years to come.This book will be indispensable reading for everyone interested in medieval culture.
Download or read book Viking Congress written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Viking Age in Caithness, Orkney, and the North Atlantic by : Colleen E. Batey
Download or read book The Viking Age in Caithness, Orkney, and the North Atlantic written by Colleen E. Batey and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Viking Diaspora presents the early medieval migrations of people, language and culture from mainland Scandinavia to new homes in the British Isles, the North Atlantic, the Baltic and the East, in the period known as the Viking Age as a form of 'diaspora'. It concentrates on the connectedness between migrants and both their homelands and regions within the diaspora, particularly through language, naming customs and in traditional stories and poems. Rather than the movements of armies, it considers the movements of people, and on the linguistic and cultural effects of those population movements. Providing a broad survey of the Viking Age and its aftermath, the book draws evidence from a wide range of sources that will interest students and academics"--
Book Synopsis Dynamics of Northern Societies by : Jette Arneborg
Download or read book Dynamics of Northern Societies written by Jette Arneborg and published by Aarhus University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prehistory and early history of northern societies -- from the Palaeo-eskimo pioneers to the Viking Norse Settlers -- is unfolding through archaeological and historical research and through interdisciplinary studies including natural sciences. The more insight we have gained on Arctic and North Atlantic archae-ology the more we have realised how diverse and dynamic these societies were and how complex their stories are. This volume includes articles on New approaches to dynamic analysis of Palaeo-Eskimo artefacts; Interaction with the environ-ment; Dynamics of small scale societies; Archi-tecture and social organisation of space in Palaeo-Eskimo and Inuit contexts; Origins and spread of the Palaeo-Eskimo and Inuit cultures; Demography, death and burials; Norse culture in Iceland and the Faroe Islands, e.g. outlaws of Viking Age Iceland; Trade and burials in Viking Age Britain.
Book Synopsis Scandinavia and Europe 800-1350 by : Jonathan Adams
Download or read book Scandinavia and Europe 800-1350 written by Jonathan Adams and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of writings discussing the mutual influence between Scandinavian and European politics, culture and society both during and after the Viking Age.
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by : Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Download or read book Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland written by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes List of members.
Book Synopsis Sagas of Salt and Stone by : Robin Noble
Download or read book Sagas of Salt and Stone written by Robin Noble and published by Saraband. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The islands of Orkney are distinct, perhaps that bit wild. Remote, surrounded by an endless ocean and dominated by an infinite sky, which brings either brilliant light or days of wind that makes everything taste of salt. This remarkable landscape has the power to bewitch people, and Robin Noble has been in its thrall for a lifetime. In Sagas of Salt and Stone he takes us on a personal voyage of adventure and discovery of the archipelago, its history, nature and people – from its seabird colonies and startling rock formations to its fishermen's huts and the Ring of Brodgar. Robin reflects on what has changed and is changing in Orkney, sharing stories of golden summer days and relentless winter storms, of past friendships and family travails. He highlights the best that Orkney has to offer and elucidates its power to inspire and to provide succour for troubled souls. Sagas of Salt and Stone is nothing less than his love letter to Orkney and its people. "Magical ... The lovely style of the author's writing... brings his subjects to life with a lightness of touch and thoughtfulness that succeeds in being both accessible and thought-provoking.” Undiscovered Scotland; "A wonderful and evocative celebration of the land and people of Orkney." Anna Ritchie
Download or read book Current Research in Britain written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
