Settlement Archaeology, Landscape archaeology, resilience (Other Keyword)

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Farms of Hunters: Medieval Norse Settlement, Land- and Sea-Use in Low Arctic Greenland (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Christian K. Madsen. Jette Arneborg. Ian Simpson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Norse that settled in Greenland between c. AD 985-1450 depended greatly on the harvesting of local to regional Arctic marine resources for both subsistence and oversees trade. However, the mechanics and organization around this important marine economy have only left a limited imprint in the archaeological record, which is dominated by evidence of...