Val 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.
This book 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.
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Reviewing Viking
Studies and North Atlantic Realm Archaeological Research
Chapter 3:
Interdisciplinarity & Environmental History: setting the methodology
Chapter
4: Sagas & Archives
Chapter 5: Modelling the Exploitation of Aquatic
Resources and the Emergence of Commercial Fishing in Iceland and the Faeroes
Chapter 6: Geoarchaeology of the Emergence of Commercial Fishing: Testing
Historical and Environmental Reconstructions of the Emergence of Commercial
Fishing
Chapter 7: Conclusion, Bibliography.
Val Dufeu, doctor of medieval and environmental history, is a consultant in geoarchaeology, study of soils, and historical research.
