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The remembered land : surviving sea-level rise after the last Ice Age

Title
The remembered land : surviving sea-level rise after the last Ice Age / Jim Leary ; with illustrations by Elaine Jamieson.
Author
Leary, Jim
Publication
  • London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015.
  • ©2015
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164 pages; 23 cm
Summary
"How did small-scale societies in the past experience and respond to sea-level rise? What happened when their dwellings, hunting grounds and ancestral lands were lost under an advancing tide? This book asks these questions in relation to the hunter-gatherer inhabitants of a lost prehistoric land; a land that became entirely inundated and now lies beneath the North Sea. It seeks to understand how these people viewed and responded to their changing environment, suggesting that people were not struggling against nature, but simply getting on with life--with all its trials and hardships, satisfactions and pleasures, and with a multitude of choices available. At the same time, this loss of land--the loss of places and familiar locales where myths were created and identities formed--would have profoundly affected people's sense of being. This book moves beyond the static approach normally applied to environmental change in the past to capture its nuances. Through this, a richer and more complex story of past sea-level rise develops; a story that may just have resonance for us today"--
Series Statement
Debates in archaeology
Uniform Title
Debates in archaeology.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part 1. To Begin : Recognizing Northsealand -- Part 2. Landscape : Thinking the Imagined Land -- The People of Northsealand -- Shaping the World with Ice and Sea -- Part 3. Effects : Changing Worlds -- Losing Place -- Part 4. Responses : Living in a Changing World -- Knowledge, Networks and Social Memory -- Being Pragmatic -- Part 5. To end : The Remembered Land -- Epilogue.
Call Number
JFD 15-4375
ISBN
  • 9781474245913
  • 1474245919
  • 9781474245906
  • 1474245900
  • 9781474245937 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781474245920 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2015013365
OCLC
900913500
Author
Leary, Jim, author.
Title
The remembered land : surviving sea-level rise after the last Ice Age / Jim Leary ; with illustrations by Elaine Jamieson.
Publisher
London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015.
Copyright Date
©2015
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Debates in archaeology
Debates in archaeology.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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JFD 15-4375
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