Nordic Archaeological Abstracts
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Page : 354 pages
File Size : 16,28 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Archaeology
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Page : 354 pages
File Size : 16,28 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Archaeology
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Author : Erland Munch-Petersen
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 31,78 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9788773030806
Author : Jane Lydon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 10,7 MB
Release : 2016-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1315427680
The contributors to this volume—themselves from six continents and many representing indigenous and minority communities and disadvantaged countries—suggest strategies to strip archaeological theory and practice of its colonial heritage and create a discipline sensitive to its inherent inequalities.
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Page : 452 pages
File Size : 13,19 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Archaeology
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Author : Cordelia Heß, Solveig Marie Wang, Erik Wolf
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 33,11 MB
Release : 2025-08-19
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ISBN : 3111386759
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Page : 352 pages
File Size : 19,61 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Archaeology
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Vols. for 1975- include: "List of archaeological papers from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania."
Author : William Chester Jordan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 39,63 MB
Release : 1997-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1400822130
The horrors of the Great Famine (1315-1322), one of the severest catastrophes ever to strike northern Europe, lived on for centuries in the minds of Europeans who recalled tales of widespread hunger, class warfare, epidemic disease, frighteningly high mortality, and unspeakable crimes. Until now, no one has offered a perspective of what daily life was actually like throughout the entire region devastated by this crisis, nor has anyone probed far into its causes. Here, the distinguished historian William Jordan provides the first comprehensive inquiry into the Famine from Ireland to western Poland, from Scandinavia to central France and western Germany. He produces a rich cultural history of medieval community life, drawing his evidence from such sources as meteorological and agricultural records, accounts kept by monasteries providing for the needy, and documentation of military campaigns. Whereas there has been a tendency to describe the food shortages as a result of simply bad weather or else poor economic planning, Jordan sets the stage so that we see the complex interplay of social and environmental factors that caused this particular disaster and allowed it to continue for so long. Jordan begins with a description of medieval northern Europe at its demographic peak around 1300, by which time the region had achieved a sophisticated level of economic integration. He then looks at problems that, when combined with years of inundating rains and brutal winters, gnawed away at economic stability. From animal diseases and harvest failures to volatile prices, class antagonism, and distribution breakdowns brought on by constant war, northern Europeans felt helplessly besieged by acts of an angry God--although a cessation of war and a more equitable distribution of resources might have lessened the severity of the food shortages. Throughout Jordan interweaves vivid historical detail with a sharp analysis of why certain responses to the famine failed. He ultimately shows that while the northern European economy did recover quickly, the Great Famine ushered in a period of social instability that had serious repercussions for generations to come.
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Page : 526 pages
File Size : 34,83 MB
Release : 1994-04
Category : Power resources
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Author : Medelhavsmuseet (Stockholm, Sweden)
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Page : 84 pages
File Size : 12,92 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Egypt
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Author : Eric Christiansen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 11,62 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0470692766
This history of the Nordic peoples in the period 750-1050 focuses on their homelands and colonies, demonstrating the fluidity and incoherence of the world in which they lived. Considers the Nordic peoples in Viking times without undue recourse to developmental theories. Guides readers through some of the scholarly controversies surrounding these peoples. Illustrated by reference to runic, poetic and archaeological evidence.