A millennium of Icelandic archaeological fish data examined against marine climate records
Abstract This article combines new marine fish faunal data from medieval and early modern Icelandic archaeological sites with previously published data that focused primarily on the Settlement and Commonwealth periods. This synthesis places these new data into the larger scale of Icelandic history a...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/qua.2019.35 2024-09-15T18:35:09+00:00 A millennium of Icelandic archaeological fish data examined against marine climate records Hambrecht, George Feeley, Frank Smiarowski, Konrad Hicks, Megan Harrison, Ramona Brewington, Seth Cesario, Grace Gibbons, Kevin 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qua.2019.35 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033589419000358 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Quaternary Research volume 108, page 64-80 ISSN 0033-5894 1096-0287 journal-article 2019 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2019.35 2024-07-24T04:03:15Z Abstract This article combines new marine fish faunal data from medieval and early modern Icelandic archaeological sites with previously published data that focused primarily on the Settlement and Commonwealth periods. This synthesis places these new data into the larger scale of Icelandic history and marine conditions (sea-surface temperature and sea ice) to identify patterns and trends across the last 1000 years of the relationship between humans and Icelandic cod populations. We find no direct correlation between zooarchaeological patterns and sea ice or storminess in the medieval period and a possible correlation in the early modern period. We argue that this suggests a nuanced relationship between changing climates and fishing patterns in Icelandic history. While changes in sea temperature and periods of increased storminess might have made fishing productivity more variable and at times more dangerous, it is only in the early modern period that we see change in the marine zooarchaeological record that might indicate a correlation. Instead, we contend that the impacts of the changing climate relative to marine resources were mediated by social, political, economic, and even technological variables. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sea ice Cambridge University Press Quaternary Research 1 17 |
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Abstract This article combines new marine fish faunal data from medieval and early modern Icelandic archaeological sites with previously published data that focused primarily on the Settlement and Commonwealth periods. This synthesis places these new data into the larger scale of Icelandic history and marine conditions (sea-surface temperature and sea ice) to identify patterns and trends across the last 1000 years of the relationship between humans and Icelandic cod populations. We find no direct correlation between zooarchaeological patterns and sea ice or storminess in the medieval period and a possible correlation in the early modern period. We argue that this suggests a nuanced relationship between changing climates and fishing patterns in Icelandic history. While changes in sea temperature and periods of increased storminess might have made fishing productivity more variable and at times more dangerous, it is only in the early modern period that we see change in the marine zooarchaeological record that might indicate a correlation. Instead, we contend that the impacts of the changing climate relative to marine resources were mediated by social, political, economic, and even technological variables. |
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Hambrecht, George Feeley, Frank Smiarowski, Konrad Hicks, Megan Harrison, Ramona Brewington, Seth Cesario, Grace Gibbons, Kevin |
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A millennium of Icelandic archaeological fish data examined against marine climate records |
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A millennium of Icelandic archaeological fish data examined against marine climate records |
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A millennium of Icelandic archaeological fish data examined against marine climate records |
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A millennium of Icelandic archaeological fish data examined against marine climate records |
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A millennium of Icelandic archaeological fish data examined against marine climate records |
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millennium of icelandic archaeological fish data examined against marine climate records |
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