Timemanagement op Spitsbergen:Een historisch-archeologische benadering van Pomoren in de 18de eeuw

Past peoples living in the Arctic had to deal with seasonal extremes. They needed to plan ahead and make vitally important choices concerning where to live, what and when to hunt, and what to store for later use. This kind of planning and time-management was vital for hunter-gatherers living across...

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Main Author: Dresscher, Sarah
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:Dutch
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/11370/bf25a583-dcfe-45ad-b859-cf1f722dca06
https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/bf25a583-dcfe-45ad-b859-cf1f722dca06
https://pure.rug.nl/ws/files/28319223/PA26_ArtDresscher_kopie.pdf
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Summary:Past peoples living in the Arctic had to deal with seasonal extremes. They needed to plan ahead and make vitally important choices concerning where to live, what and when to hunt, and what to store for later use. This kind of planning and time-management was vital for hunter-gatherers living across the Arctic. But for those Russian hunters from the White Sea area (Pomors) who went to Svalbard on hunting expeditions, extra complexity was added to this schedule: extrac- tion of commercial trade goods. They had to manage a balance between subsistence needs and the commercial hunting schedule.