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11 | (2) |
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13 | (6) |
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Fishing in the North Atlantic Scandinavian World: A Human-Environment Approach to the Role and Place of Iceland and the Faeroes |
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15 | (4) |
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II Reviewing Viking Studies and North Atlantic Realm Archaeological Research |
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19 | (30) |
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22 | (10) |
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Archaeological Research and Environmental Sciences Studies Related to Fish in Viking Age and Medieval Iceland |
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32 | (2) |
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34 | (2) |
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The Faeroes and Environmental Sciences Research |
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36 | (2) |
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Archaeo-ichthyological Research |
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38 | (4) |
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Fishing and Fishing Communities: Anthropological, Archaeological and Historical Approaches |
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42 | (7) |
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III Interdisciplinarity and Environmental History: Setting the Methodology |
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49 | (16) |
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50 | (3) |
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Environmental History and Theories |
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53 | (1) |
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54 | (1) |
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Historicism, Materialism, Functionalism and Behaviourism |
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55 | (2) |
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Economics and Anthropology |
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57 | (2) |
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59 | (5) |
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Geoarchaeology and Micromorphology |
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59 | (3) |
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62 | (2) |
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64 | (1) |
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65 | (38) |
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Part 1 Icelandic and Faeroese primary sources and the writing of history |
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66 | (13) |
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67 | (3) |
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Islendinga sogur, The Sagas of the Icelanders |
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70 | (2) |
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Landnamabok or Book of Settlement |
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72 | (2) |
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74 | (3) |
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Church & Public Records: Diplomatarium Islandicum |
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77 | (2) |
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Part 2 Reading the sources thematically |
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79 | (24) |
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Exploiting Sea and Rivers |
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79 | (5) |
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Fishermen and Those involved in Fishing |
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84 | (2) |
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Traders and Commercial Partnerships |
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86 | (5) |
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91 | (5) |
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Icelanders and Norwegian kings |
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96 | (7) |
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V Modelling the Exploitation of Aquatic Resources and the Emergence of Commercial Fishing in Iceland and the Faeroes |
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103 | (64) |
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The Climate and Geography of Iceland |
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104 | (3) |
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The Climate and Geography of the Faeroes |
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107 | (3) |
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Marginality and Rationality as a Conceptual Framework |
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110 | (5) |
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Marginality: Adaptation and Resilience |
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111 | (1) |
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Behaviour and Rationality |
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112 | (3) |
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Environmental Factors and the Norse Pioneers of Iceland and the Faeroes |
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115 | (1) |
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Environmental Determinism and the Settlement of Iceland and the Faeroes |
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116 | (3) |
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Resource Possibilism and the Settlement of Iceland and the Faeroes |
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119 | (7) |
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Exploitation of Aquatic Systems |
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126 | (7) |
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Icelandic and Faeroes Waters |
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126 | (1) |
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Off shore, Inshore and Riverine Fish Resources |
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127 | (1) |
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128 | (3) |
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131 | (2) |
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Economic Commonwealth: Core and Periphery within the North Atlantic Realm |
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133 | (2) |
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Economic Patterns from the Later Iron Age to the Medieval Period |
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134 | (1) |
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Emergence of an Original Icelandic Economy or Scandinavian Continuity? |
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135 | (1) |
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An Atlantic Economic Commonwealth |
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136 | (1) |
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Emergence of Specialised Workers |
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137 | (1) |
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Exploiting Renewable Resources for Commercial Purposes |
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138 | (2) |
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Icelandic and Faeroese Merchants? |
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140 | (2) |
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Regulating the Trade and Fishing Rights: Sea and Riverine Rights |
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142 | (1) |
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143 | (2) |
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National-Regional Trade, Markets and Fair: Alping og Ping |
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143 | (2) |
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Fishing and Settlement Patterns |
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145 | (6) |
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High Status Farm - Coastal and Inland |
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147 | (1) |
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148 | (1) |
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149 | (2) |
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Gender Exploitation of Ecosystems |
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151 | (1) |
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152 | (5) |
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157 | (3) |
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157 | (2) |
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Ship and Seafaring Regulations |
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159 | (1) |
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Iceland and the European Fish Markets |
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160 | (7) |
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VI Geoarchaeology of the Emergence of Commercial Fishing: Testing Historical and Environmental Reconstructions of the Emergence of Commercial Fishing |
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167 | (52) |
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Geo-archaeology: Understanding Human Economic History through the Use of Landscape |
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167 | (3) |
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Identifying Settlement Patterns |
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167 | (2) |
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169 | (1) |
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Micromorphology: Investigating Human Economic Patterns through Soil Analysis |
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170 | (6) |
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173 | (1) |
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Zooarchaeology: Understanding Human Economic Behaviour through Bone Finds |
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173 | (1) |
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Bone Recovery: Archaeological Contexts |
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174 | (1) |
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175 | (1) |
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176 | (2) |
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Reconstructing Commercial Fishing: Case Studies |
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178 | (26) |
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Arneshreppur, Strandasysla, North West Iceland |
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180 | (1) |
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181 | (8) |
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189 | (6) |
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The Westfjords: Vatnsfjorour |
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195 | (3) |
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Myvatnssveit: Skutustaoir |
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198 | (6) |
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204 | (10) |
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205 | (4) |
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209 | (5) |
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Environmental Archives and Human behaviour: modelling fish based paleo-economies in Iceland and the Faeroes |
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214 | (5) |
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219 | (12) |
| Bibliography |
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231 | (20) |
| Index |
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