Social-Ecological Resilience in the Viking-Age to Early-Medieval Faroe Islands

• Main Author: Brewington, Seth
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: CUNY Academic Works 2015
• Subjects: Faroe Islands; Norse; North Atlantic; Social-ecological resilience; Zooarchaeology; Anthropology; Greenland; Norway; Sandoy; Iceland
• Online Access: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/870; https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1884&context=gc_etds

This dissertation aims to evaluate the development and maintenance of social-ecological resilience during the settlement-period (ca. 9th through 11th centuries CE) in the Faroe Islands. In particular, the core objectives include the identification of the key social and natural variables involved, th...