Fish Trade in Medieval North Atlantic Societies : : An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human Ecodynamics / / Val Dufeu.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018
• VerfasserIn: Dufeu, Val,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: The Early Medieval North Atlantic
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 34 halftones, 12 line drawings
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgments --; I. Introduction --; II. Reviewing Viking Studies and North Atlantic Realm Archaeological Research --; III. Interdisciplinarity and Environmental History: Setting the Methodology --; IV. Sagas and Archives --; V. Modelling the Exploitation of Aquatic Resources and the Emergence of Commercial Fishing in Iceland and the Faeroes --; VI. Geoarchaeology of the Emergence of Commercial Fishing --; VII. Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789048533145; 9783110667318; 9783110606720; 9783110604252; 9783110603255; 9783110604030; 9783110603149
• DOI: 10.1515/9789048533145?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Val Dufeu.

Valérie Dufeu here reconstructs settlement patterns of fishing communities in Viking Age Iceland and proposes socio-economic and environmental models relevant to any study of the Vikings or the North Atlantic. She integrates written sources, geoarchaeological data, and zooarchaeological data to examine how fishing propelled political change in the North Atlantic. The evolution of survival fishing to internal fish markets to overseas fish trade mirrors wider social changes in the Vikings' world.