The Norse Awakens: A palaeodemographic study of Viking and Norse homeland and frontier communities during the Viking and following Medieval period in the North Atlantic ...
While there has been a significant amount of interest in the lives of Viking and Norse populations in the modern era through historical representations, archaeology, and representation in popular culture; the knowledge surrounding the population health and dynamics of these people is limited. This i...
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ftdatacite:10.25911/845n-k356 2024-03-31T07:54:13+00:00 The Norse Awakens: A palaeodemographic study of Viking and Norse homeland and frontier communities during the Viking and following Medieval period in the North Atlantic ... Van Tiel, Britta 2020 https://dx.doi.org/10.25911/845n-k356 https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/313815 en eng The Australian National University palaeodemography viking age palaeoepidimiology bioarchaeology North Atlantic archaeology archaeology fertility rates subadult representation Thesis (Honours) article CreativeWork Other 2020 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.25911/845n-k356 2024-03-04T13:58:07Z While there has been a significant amount of interest in the lives of Viking and Norse populations in the modern era through historical representations, archaeology, and representation in popular culture; the knowledge surrounding the population health and dynamics of these people is limited. This is due to a lack of palaeodemographic and palaeoepidemiological investigations. It is widely recognised that palaeodemography can significantly improve our understanding of population health and dynamics of past populations. For this reason, this thesis aimed to apply existing palaeodemographic methods for fertility, population increase and maternal mortality, and adjust a new method for mortality in early infancy. This was in order to develop a better understanding of population health and dynamics of homeland and frontier Viking and Norse communities, which would greatly contribute to the currently limited knowledge. The results of the analyses undertaken in this thesis indicate that there were no significant ... Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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While there has been a significant amount of interest in the lives of Viking and Norse populations in the modern era through historical representations, archaeology, and representation in popular culture; the knowledge surrounding the population health and dynamics of these people is limited. This is due to a lack of palaeodemographic and palaeoepidemiological investigations. It is widely recognised that palaeodemography can significantly improve our understanding of population health and dynamics of past populations. For this reason, this thesis aimed to apply existing palaeodemographic methods for fertility, population increase and maternal mortality, and adjust a new method for mortality in early infancy. This was in order to develop a better understanding of population health and dynamics of homeland and frontier Viking and Norse communities, which would greatly contribute to the currently limited knowledge. The results of the analyses undertaken in this thesis indicate that there were no significant ... |
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The Norse Awakens: A palaeodemographic study of Viking and Norse homeland and frontier communities during the Viking and following Medieval period in the North Atlantic ... |
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The Norse Awakens: A palaeodemographic study of Viking and Norse homeland and frontier communities during the Viking and following Medieval period in the North Atlantic ... |
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The Norse Awakens: A palaeodemographic study of Viking and Norse homeland and frontier communities during the Viking and following Medieval period in the North Atlantic ... |
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The Norse Awakens: A palaeodemographic study of Viking and Norse homeland and frontier communities during the Viking and following Medieval period in the North Atlantic ... |
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The Norse Awakens: A palaeodemographic study of Viking and Norse homeland and frontier communities during the Viking and following Medieval period in the North Atlantic ... |
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norse awakens: a palaeodemographic study of viking and norse homeland and frontier communities during the viking and following medieval period in the north atlantic ... |
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