Fish trade in Norse Orkney and Caithness: a zooarchaeological approach

The trade of dried fish played an important role in the transformation from the Viking Age to the Middle Ages in Scandinavian polities such as Arctic Norway. This paper develops zooarchaeological methods to investigate whether similar processes occurred in the less well documented Norse colonies of...

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Published in:Antiquity
Main Author: Barrett, James H.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1997
Subjects:
Arctic
Norway
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00085367
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spelling crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0003598x00085367 2024-09-09T19:22:16+00:00 Fish trade in Norse Orkney and Caithness: a zooarchaeological approach Barrett, James H. 1997 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00085367 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0003598X00085367 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Antiquity volume 71, issue 273, page 616-638 ISSN 0003-598X 1745-1744 journal-article 1997 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00085367 2024-08-07T04:04:45Z The trade of dried fish played an important role in the transformation from the Viking Age to the Middle Ages in Scandinavian polities such as Arctic Norway. This paper develops zooarchaeological methods to investigate whether similar processes occurred in the less well documented Norse colonies of northern Scotland — the joint earldoms of Orkney and Caithness. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Cambridge University Press Arctic Norway Antiquity 71 273 616 638
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