Swidden cultivation in the shadow of the Arctic Circle

Just how far back in time swidden techniques were first employed in Scandinavia is open to some question. It has been suggested that swidden practices were brought to Scandinavia by its earliest inhabitants.1 While that is surely an overstatement, it does seem fairly clear that by 1900 swidden agric...

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Main Author: Floyd, Donald R.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: California Council for Geographic Education 1983
Subjects:
Agriculture > Scandinavia > History
Swidden farming
Arctic
Norway
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10211.2/2469
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spelling ftcalifstateuniv:oai:dspace.calstate.edu:10211.2/2469 2023-05-15T14:59:41+02:00 Swidden cultivation in the shadow of the Arctic Circle Floyd, Donald R. 1983 http://hdl.handle.net/10211.2/2469 en_US eng California Council for Geographic Education The California Geographer 23: 87-100 http://hdl.handle.net/10211.2/2469 Agriculture--Scandinavia--History Swidden farming Article 1983 ftcalifstateuniv 2022-04-13T11:08:14Z Just how far back in time swidden techniques were first employed in Scandinavia is open to some question. It has been suggested that swidden practices were brought to Scandinavia by its earliest inhabitants.1 While that is surely an overstatement, it does seem fairly clear that by 1900 swidden agriculture had been present in the North for at least four millenia. Pollen analysis of peat bogs, for example, indicates that swidden farming techniques were probably being utilized in parts of what is now Denmark as well as in the southern reaches of contemporary Norway and Sweden at least as early as 2500 B.C. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic California State University (CSU): DSpace Arctic Norway
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Swidden farming
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Swidden farming
Floyd, Donald R.
Swidden cultivation in the shadow of the Arctic Circle
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Swidden farming
description Just how far back in time swidden techniques were first employed in Scandinavia is open to some question. It has been suggested that swidden practices were brought to Scandinavia by its earliest inhabitants.1 While that is surely an overstatement, it does seem fairly clear that by 1900 swidden agriculture had been present in the North for at least four millenia. Pollen analysis of peat bogs, for example, indicates that swidden farming techniques were probably being utilized in parts of what is now Denmark as well as in the southern reaches of contemporary Norway and Sweden at least as early as 2500 B.C.
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title Swidden cultivation in the shadow of the Arctic Circle
title_short Swidden cultivation in the shadow of the Arctic Circle
title_full Swidden cultivation in the shadow of the Arctic Circle
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title_full_unstemmed Swidden cultivation in the shadow of the Arctic Circle
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