The Viking Diaspora presents the early medieval migrations of people, language and culture
from mainland Scandinavia to new homes in the British Isles, the North Atlantic, the Baltic …

I'm not a fisherman, though I know something of the craft and the sea after thousands of days
and nights underway in the North Atlantic. For years I savored the thrill of the hunt and the …

The zooarchaeology of complex societies provides insights into the interrelated social and
economic relationships that people and animals created. I present a synthesis of …

Early settlement in the North Atlantic produced complex interactions of culture and nature.
The sustained program of interdisciplinary collaboration is intended to focus on ninth‐to 13th …

When did the market economy come to Europe? Fish might seem an unlikely commodity to
throw light on the matter, but the authors use fish bones from English sites to offer a vivid …

Changing economies and patterns of trade, rather than climatic deterioration, could have
critically marginalized the Norse Greenland settlements and effectively sealed their fate …

In the Beginning describes the basic methods and theoretical approaches of archaeology.
This is a book about fundamental principles written in a clear, flowing style, with minimal use …

This paper explores the potential of stable isotope analysis to identify the approximate
region of catch of cod by analysing bones from medieval settlements in northern and …

Stable isotope measurements and radiocarbon dates on 54 burials from northern Scotland
document trends in marine protein consumption from the late Iron Age to the end of the …

Food and diet are central to understanding daily life in the middle ages. In the last two
decades, the potential for the study of diet in medieval England has changed markedly …