Vatnahverfi An Inland District Of The Eastern Settlement In Greenland
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Vatnahverfi
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language : en
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
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Vatnahverfi An Inland District Of The Eastern Settlement In Greenland
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Author : Christen Leif Vebæk
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Vatnahverfi An Inland District Of The Eastern Settlement In Greenland written by Christen Leif Vebæk and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with categories.
Norse Greenland Viking Peasants In The Arctic
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Author : Arnved Nedkvitne
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-09-27
Norse Greenland Viking Peasants In The Arctic written by Arnved Nedkvitne and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-27 with History categories.
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.
Narsaq A Norse Landnama Farm
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Author : Christen Leif Vebæk
language : en
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Release Date : 1993
Narsaq A Norse Landnama Farm written by Christen Leif Vebæk and has been published by Museum Tusculanum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Agriculture categories.
Ancient Iron And Slags In Greenland
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Author : Vagn Fabritius Buchwald
language : en
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Release Date : 2001
Ancient Iron And Slags In Greenland written by Vagn Fabritius Buchwald and has been published by Museum Tusculanum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Antiques categories.
The Greenland Norse
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Author : NIELS. LYNNERUP
language : en
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Release Date : 1998
The Greenland Norse written by NIELS. LYNNERUP and has been published by Museum Tusculanum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with categories.
Woven Into The Earth
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Author : Else Ostergaard
language : en
Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Release Date : 2003-05-01
Woven Into The Earth written by Else Ostergaard and has been published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-01 with History categories.
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.
Hunting Fishing And Animal Husbandry At The Farm Beneath The Sand Western Greenland
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Author : Inge Bødker Enghoff
language : en
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Release Date : 2003
Hunting Fishing And Animal Husbandry At The Farm Beneath The Sand Western Greenland written by Inge Bødker Enghoff and has been published by Museum Tusculanum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Animal remains (Archaeology) categories.
Material Koinai In The Greek Early Iron Age And Archaic Period
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Author : Anastasia Gadolou
language : en
Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Release Date : 2017-02-01
Material Koinai In The Greek Early Iron Age And Archaic Period written by Anastasia Gadolou and has been published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-01 with History categories.
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.
Collapse
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Author : Jared Diamond
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2011-01-04
Collapse written by Jared Diamond and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-04 with History categories.
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?