Re: Cod Fish, Walrus, and Chieftains
- From: Philip Deitiker <Nopdeitik@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 21 Nov 2005 15:38:34 GMT
In sci.archaeology, Peter Alaca created a message ID
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> The Icelanders drew upon an Iron Age heritage to
> intensify a staple goods economy based
> increasingly upon preserved cod-family fish that
> ultimately linked them closely to the expanding
> proto-capitalist economies of later medieval
> Europe.
> Greenlanders instead intensified the hunting of
> walrus to produce the prestige goods component
> of the Viking Age chiefly economy.
> As social and environmental change intensified in
> the later Middle Ages, Greenland's economy failed
> and the colony became extinct while Icelanders
> survived. New zooarchaeological approaches to
> the study of pre-state chiefly economics are
> transforming our understanding of the history of
> this key region.
Iceland has trees although not a great many, Greenland did
not. Its hard to work Iron without wood.
Iceland was frozen in a few times, also population
collapses did occurred.
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