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Atlantic connections and adaptations : economies, environments and subsistence in lands bordering the North Atlantic / edited by R.A. Housley and G. Coles.

Title: Atlantic connections and adaptations : economies, environments and subsistence in lands bordering the North Atlantic / edited by R.A. Housley and G. Coles.
Publication: Oxford : Oxbow ; Oakville, CT : [Distributed by] D. Brown Book Co., c2004.

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Description

xvi, 271 : ill., maps, plans; 30 cm.

Series Statement

Symposia of the Association for Environmental Archaeology ; no. 21

Uniform Title

Symposia of the Association for Environmental Archaeology no. 21.

Subject

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings
History

Note

"The papers presented here are taken from the first joint meeting of the Association for Environmental Archaeology (AEA) and the North Atlantic Bio-cultural Organisation (NABO), which was held in Glasgow University on the 29-31 March 2001."--Pref.

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Contents

Introduction : economies, environments and subsistence in the North Atlantic realm -- 1. Holocene climatic variability and human settlement in the Scottish Highlands : fragility and robustness / Eileen Tisdall / Althea L. Davies / Richard Tipping -- 2. high-resolution study of human impact and land use around the first millennium A.D. royal centre at Dunadd, Argyll / Susan Ramsay / Jennifer J. Miller / Ewan N. Campbell / Rupert A. Housley -- 3. archaeological landscape of South Uist / Mike Parker Pearson / Jim Symonds / Niall Sharples -- 4. Resource management in the Outer Hebrides : an assessment of the faunal and floral evidence from archaeological investigations / Jacqui Mulville / Helen Smith -- 5. Charred food residues from Hebridean Iron Age pottery : analysis and dating / Rupert A. Housley / Marcia Taylor / Ewan N. Campbell -- 6. Application of mineral magnetism in Atlantic Scotland archaeology 1 : techniques, magnetic enhancement and the identification of fuel sources / Mike J. Church / Catherine M. Batt / Clare Peters -- 7. Applications of mineral magnetism in Atlantic Scotland archaeology 2 : magnetic susceptibility and archaeobotanical taphonomy in West Lewis, Scotland / Mike J. Church / Clare Peters -- 8. origin of the Orkney Vole Microtus arvalis orcadensis : a proxy for constructing human movements / Susan Thaw / Maarit Jaarola / Jeremy B. Searle / Keith M. Dobney -- 9. Form and function in Shetland prehistoric field systems / Erika Guttmann / Ian A. Simpson / Fiona Chrystall / Val E. Turner -- 10. Power over time : an overview of the Old Scatness Broch excavations / Stephen J. Dockrill / Catherine M. Batt -- 11. Bringing in the sheaves : farming intensification in the post-Broch Iron Age / Julie M. Bond / Ian A. Simpson / Erika Guttmann -- 12. Exploring links : preliminary investigations into marine resources and ceramics from Old Scatness, Shetland / Louise D. Brown / Carl Heron -- 13. Iron-Age fishing in the Northern Isles : the evolution of a stored product? / Rebecca A. Nicholson -- 14. Butter as an economic resource in the Northern Isles / Carl Challinor -- 15. Set in stone : experimental construction of a wheelhouse / Helen S. Bowstead Stallybrass / Stephen J. Dockrill / Laurence B. Malcolmson -- 16. Holocene development of the Icelandic biota and its palaeoclimatic significance / Dawn Hendon / Pete Langdon / Mark Dinnin / Chris Caseldine -- 17. Recent investigations at Hofstathir, Northern Iceland / Orri Vesteinsson / Thomas H. McGovern / Adolf Fioriksson -- 18. Farming and maritime resources it Mithbaer on Flatey in Breithafjorthur, NW Iceland / Colin P. Amundsen -- 19. Viking settlement of Northern Iceland : a preliminary zooarchaeological analysis / Clayton M. Tinsley -- 20. North Atlantic networks; preliminary research into the trade of steatite in the Viking and Norse periods / Julie M. Bond / Amanda K. Forster -- 21. How the north was won (and lost again) : historical and archaeological data on the exploitation of the North Atlantic by the Flemish fishery / Anton Ervynck / Marnix Pieters / Wim Van Neer -- 22. Cod and ships : Scottish merchant activity in southern Shetland in the 17th century / Nigel D. Melton -- 23. North Atlantic biocultural organization (NABO) 10 years on : science, education and community / Thomas H. McGovern.

ISBN

1842171062

OCLC

52920707
SCSB-11482044

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Harvard Library