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Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN 13 : 9788763512121
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Vatnahverfi written by and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christen Leif Vebæk
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Total Pages : 132 pages
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Download or read book Vatnahverfi: an Inland District of the Eastern Settlement in Greenland written by Christen Leif Vebæk and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christen Leif Vebæk
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN 13 : 9788763512183
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Narsaq - a Norse Landnama Farm written by Christen Leif Vebæk and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arnved Nedkvitne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135125958X
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Norse Greenland: Viking Peasants in the Arctic written by Arnved Nedkvitne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How could a community of 2000–3000 Viking peasants survive in Arctic Greenland for 430 years (ca. 985–1415), and why did they finally disappear? European agriculture in an Arctic environment encountered serious ecological challenges. The Norse peasants faced these challenges by adapting agricultural practices they had learned from the Atlantic and North Sea coast of Norway. Norse Greenland was the stepping stone for the Europeans who first discovered America and settled briefly in Newfoundland ca. AD 1000. The community had a global significance which surpassed its modest size. In the last decades scholars have been nearly unanimous in emphasising that long-term climatic and environmental changes created a situation where Norse agriculture was no longer sustainable and the community was ruined. A secondary hypothesis has focused on ethnic confrontations between Norse peasants and Inuit hunters. In the last decades ethnic violence has been on the rise in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and parts of Africa. In some cases it has degenerated into ethnic cleansing. This has strengthened the interest in ethnic violence in past societies. Challenging traditional hypotheses is a source of progress in all science. The present book does this on the basis of relevant written and archaeological material respecting the methodology of both sciences.
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 : Ramona Harrison
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739185489
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Human Ecodynamics in the North Atlantic written by Ramona Harrison and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Human Ecodynamics in the North Atlantic: A Collaborative Model of Humans and Nature through Space and Time, Ramona Harrison and Ruth A. Maherhave compiled a series of separate research projects conducted across the North Atlantic region that each contribute greatly to anthropological archaeology. This book assembles a regional model through which the reader is presented with a vivid and detailed image of the climatic events and cultures which have occupied these seas and lands for roughly a 5000-year period. It provides a model of adaptability, resilience, and sustainability that can be applied globally. First, visiting the Northern Isles of Scotland in the Orkney Islands, the reader is taken through the archaeology from the Neolithic Period through World War II in the face of sea-level rise and rapidly eroding coastlines. The Shetland Islands then reveal a deep-time study of one large-scale Iron Age excavation. On to the northern coasts of Norway, where information about late medieval maritime peoples is explained. Iceland explores human–environment interaction and implications of climate change presented from the Viking Age through the Early Modern Era. Rounding out the North Atlantic Region is Greenland, which sheds light on the Norse in the late Viking Age and the Middle Ages.
Author : Jared Diamond
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101502002
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Collapse written by Jared Diamond and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization. Diamond is also the author of Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies around the world, but some found solutions and persisted. As in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Diamond traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe, and weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives. Collapse moves from the Polynesian cultures on Easter Island to the flourishing American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya and finally to the doomed Viking colony on Greenland. Similar problems face us today and have already brought disaster to Rwanda and Haiti, even as China and Australia are trying to cope in innovative ways. Despite our own society’s apparently inexhaustible wealth and unrivaled political power, ominous warning signs have begun to emerge even in ecologically robust areas like Montana. Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?
Author : Jared Diamond
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101629355
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Norse Greenland written by Jared Diamond and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely and fascinating exploration of the collapse of prehistoric Norse society in Greenland—excerpted from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jared Diamond’s Collapse This excerpt from the New York Times–bestselling book Collapse takes a timely and fascinating look at prehistoric Norse Greenland—the closest approximation of a controlled experiment in collapse in history. One island, two unique societies (Norse and Inuit). Only one of these societies would succeed—the other would fail. But how? With his trademark accessibility and comprehensiveness, Diamond documents how environmental damage, climate change, loss of friendly contacts and the rise of hostile ones, and the unique political, economic, and social settings of prehistoric Greenland combine to demonstrate exactly why and how societies choose to fail or succeed. Jared Diamond's latest book, The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?, is available from Viking.
Author : Inge Bødker Enghoff
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN 13 : 9788763512602
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (126 download)
Download or read book Hunting, Fishing and Animal Husbandry at the Farm Beneath the Sand, Western Greenland written by Inge Bødker Enghoff and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hans Christian Gullov
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN 13 : 9788763512398
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (123 download)
Download or read book From Middle Ages to Colonial Times written by Hans Christian Gullov and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : NIELS. LYNNERUP
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN 13 : 9788763512459
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (124 download)
Download or read book The Greenland Norse written by NIELS. LYNNERUP and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kirsten A. Seaver
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804731614
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (316 download)
Download or read book The Frozen Echo written by Kirsten A. Seaver and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using new archaeological, scientific, and documentary information this book confronts head-on many of the unanswered questions about early exploration and colonization along the shores of the Davis Strait.
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 : Thomas H. B. Symons
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 1772824348
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Meta Incognita: a discourse of discovery - volume 2 written by Thomas H. B. Symons and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Meta Incognita Project was initiated to cast new light on the Arctic voyages of Martin Frobisher and their significance for the histories of North America and Britain. Although the Elizabethan venture failed to discover a northwest passage to mines and precious metals, and to establish a colony in the future Canadian Arctic, it left valuable legacies.
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Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Meddelelser Om Gr©ınland written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invites papers that contribute significantly to studies in Greenland concering human beings...
Author : Anastasia Gadolou
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN 13 : 8771845690
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (718 download)
Download or read book Material Koinai in the Greek Early Iron Age and Archaic Period written by Anastasia Gadolou and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Greek word koine was used to describe the new common language dialect that became widespread in the ancient Greek world after the conquests of Alexander the Great. Modern scholars have increasingly used the word to conceptualise regional homogeneities in the material culture of the ancient Mediterranean. In this volume, twenty scholars from various disciplines present case studies that focus on the fundamental question of how to perceive and the social and cultural mechanisms that led to the spread and consumption of material culture in the Greek early Iron Age. Combined the chapters provide a critical examination of the use of the koine concept as a heuristic tool in historical research and discuss to what degree similarities in material culture reflect cultural connections. The volume will be of interest scholars interested in archaeological theory and method, the social significance of material culture, and the history of the ancient Greek world in the first half of the first millennium BC.
Author : Sanne Houby-Nielsen
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN 13 : 8772191740
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Chalkis Aitolias II written by Sanne Houby-Nielsen and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homeric Chalkis is situated on the coast of Aetolia at the very ‘gateway’ of the Gulf of Patras. The foundation occurred during an important period in early Greek history when trade and movement of peoples along the Gulf intensified with a resulting strong pull to the coast. Well-preserved stratigraphies date the foundation to the early seventh century BC and testify to a flourishing settlement in the sixth century lasting till the early fifth century BC when the site was temporarily given up. Walls and roads follow a rectilinear layout. A broad spectre of pottery shapes and wares attest to innovative local and regional workshops already from the onset of the settlement. Alongside the pottery, tools for complex textile manufacture were found in all houses, among which were many small, pyramidal loom weights and spools. These findings indicated a high degree of experimental weaving techniques and demonstrated how the courtyard house, as a new house model, was particularly well suited to accommodate this manufacture, probably mantels. The results therefore offer important new evidence on relations between gender behaviour and Greek houses. The catalogue is richly illustrated with profile drawings, plans, black-and- white and colour photos and accompanied by discussions of the material.
