The medieval stockfish trade: a maritime perspective from northern Norway
Life in northern Norway has been dependent on the sea and marine resources since initial settlement following the retreating ice at least 11,500 years ago. Small islands have played a significant role for maritime communities since the Mesolithic when occupation of offshore islands reflected the mar...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/23234 2023-05-15T15:05:17+02:00 The medieval stockfish trade: a maritime perspective from northern Norway Wickler, Stephen 2021 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/23234 eng eng Âncora Editora ARGOS – Revista do Museu Marítimo de Ílhavo Wickler S. The medieval stockfish trade: a maritime perspective from northern Norway. ARGOS – Revista do Museu Marítimo de Ílhavo. 2021;09:100-107 FRIDAID 1961047 2183-0029 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/23234 openAccess Copyright 2021 The Author(s) VDP::Humanities: 000 VDP::Humaniora: 000 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed publishedVersion 2021 ftunivtroemsoe 2021-12-01T23:54:51Z Life in northern Norway has been dependent on the sea and marine resources since initial settlement following the retreating ice at least 11,500 years ago. Small islands have played a significant role for maritime communities since the Mesolithic when occupation of offshore islands reflected the maritime orientation of hunter‑gatherer settlement. Although settlement along the coast, including coastal islands, in northern Norway has been the subject of extensive archaeological interest, archaeologists have generally under communicated the importance of smaller islands as central nodes in coastal communication, contact and exchange binding the inhabitants of northern Norway to one another since the Stone Age. This is paralleled by the present‑day situation in which small islands that were formerly socio‑economic midpoints have been transformed into depopulated remote entities on the margins of society over the past century. The following overview of archaeological evidence for the development of maritime communities in Arctic Norway and their linkages to the medieval stockfish trade focuses to a large extent on the central importance of islands where stockfish was produced for export. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Northern Norway University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Arctic Norway |
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Life in northern Norway has been dependent on the sea and marine resources since initial settlement following the retreating ice at least 11,500 years ago. Small islands have played a significant role for maritime communities since the Mesolithic when occupation of offshore islands reflected the maritime orientation of hunter‑gatherer settlement. Although settlement along the coast, including coastal islands, in northern Norway has been the subject of extensive archaeological interest, archaeologists have generally under communicated the importance of smaller islands as central nodes in coastal communication, contact and exchange binding the inhabitants of northern Norway to one another since the Stone Age. This is paralleled by the present‑day situation in which small islands that were formerly socio‑economic midpoints have been transformed into depopulated remote entities on the margins of society over the past century. The following overview of archaeological evidence for the development of maritime communities in Arctic Norway and their linkages to the medieval stockfish trade focuses to a large extent on the central importance of islands where stockfish was produced for export. |
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The medieval stockfish trade: a maritime perspective from northern Norway |
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The medieval stockfish trade: a maritime perspective from northern Norway |
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ARGOS – Revista do Museu Marítimo de Ílhavo Wickler S. The medieval stockfish trade: a maritime perspective from northern Norway. ARGOS – Revista do Museu Marítimo de Ílhavo. 2021;09:100-107 FRIDAID 1961047 2183-0029 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/23234 |
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