From Chiefly Provisioning to Commercial Fishery: Long-term Economic Change in Arctic Norway

• Main Author: Perdikaris, Sophia
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 1999
• Subjects: Iron Age; chieftainship; cod fishery; medieval; zooarchaeology; Arctic Norway; Anthropology; Geography; International and Area Studies; Arctic; Lofoten; Norway; Vesterålen
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/global/37; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/global/article/1036/viewcontent/Perdikaris_1999_WA_From_chiefly_provisioning__DC_VERSION.pdf

Stratified farm mounds with excellent organic preservation in the Lofoten and Vesterålen islands in Arctic Norway provide a long-term record of changing human use of fish. In Arctic Norway, zooarchaeological signatures of intensive dried fish production extend back into the Iron Age, indicating a su...