scholarly journals Val Dufeu, Fish Trade in Medieval North Atlantic Societies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human Ecodynamics.

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 120
Author(s):  
RIchard C. Hoffmann
Keyword(s):  
North Atlantic ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Human Ecodynamics ◽  
Fish Trade

scholarly journals Revisiting the humid Roman hypothesis: novel analyses depict oscillating patterns

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 2355-2389 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. J. Dermody ◽  
H. J. de Boer ◽  
M. F. P. Bierkens ◽  
S. L. Weber ◽  
M. J. Wassen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North Atlantic ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Mediterranean Climate ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Patterns ◽  
The North

Abstract. Previous studies have proposed that potential vegetation in the Mediterranean maintained a wetter climate during the Roman Period until the initiation of large scale deforestation. The reduction in evapotranspirative fluxes associated with deforestation is suggested to have caused climatic aridification leading to the establishment of the present-day Mediterranean climate. There is also evidence to indicate that during the Roman Period Mediterranean climate was influenced by low frequency fluctuations in sea level pressure over the North Atlantic, termed here: the Centennial North Atlantic Oscillation (CNAO). In order to understand the importance of each of these mechanisms and disentangle their respective signals in the proxy record, we have employed an interdisciplinary approach that exploits a range of tools and data sources. An analysis of archaeological site distribution and historical texts demonstrate that climate did not increase in aridity since the Roman Period. Using an Earth system model of intermediate complexity prescribed with a reconstruction of ancient deforestation, we find that Mediterranean climate was insensitive to deforestation in the Late Holocene. A novel analysis of a composite of proxy indicators of climatic humidity depicts spatial and temporal patterns consistent with the CNAO. The link between the CNAO during the Roman Period and climatic humidity signals manifest in our composite analysis are demonstrated using a modelling approach. Finally, we present evidence indicating that fluctuations in the CNAO contributed to triggering a societal tipping point in the Eastern Mediterranean at the end of the Roman Period.

Fish Trade in Medieval North Atlantic Societies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Val Dufeu
Keyword(s):  
North Atlantic ◽  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Viking Age ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Environmental Models ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Atlantic ◽  
Fish Trade ◽  
Written Sources

Val Dufeu here reconstructs settlement patterns of fishing communities in Viking Age Iceland and proposes socio-economic and environmental models relevant to any study of the Vikings or the North Atlantic. She integrates written sources, geoarchaeological data, and zooarchaeological data to examine how fishing propelled political change in the North Atlantic. The evolution of survival fishing to internal fish markets to overseas fish trade mirrors wider social changes in the Vikings’ world.

Zooarchaeology of the Scandinavian settlements in Iceland and Greenland

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konrad Smiarowski ◽  
Ramona Harrison ◽  
Seth Brewington ◽  
Megan Hicks ◽  
Frank J. Feeley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North Atlantic ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Economic Organization ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Viking Age ◽  
The North ◽  
Human Ecodynamics ◽  
Island Communities

The Scandinavian Viking Age and Medieval settlements of Iceland and Greenland have been subject to zooarchaeological research for over a century, and have come to represent two classic cases of survival and collapse in the literature of long-term human ecodynamics. The work of the past two decades by multiple projects coordinated through the North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO) cooperative and by collaborating scholars has dramatically increased the available zooarchaeological evidence for economic organization of these two communities, their initial adaptation to different natural and social contexts, and their reaction to Late Medieval economic and climate change. This summary paper provides an overview of ongoing comparative research as well as references for data sets and more detailed discussion of archaeofauna from these two island communities.

scholarly journals LuMinAves: cooperative research and mitigation of light pollution impacts in seabirds

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-41
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Atchoi ◽  
Airam Rodríguez ◽  
Tânia Pipa ◽  
Carlos Silva ◽  
Azucena Martín ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North Atlantic ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Light Pollution ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
White Led ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Cooperative Research ◽  
The North ◽  
Natural Landscapes ◽  
Pollution Impacts

Any efforts to conduct a sustainable management of urban and natural landscapes benefit from an interdisciplinary approach and active collaboration between actors, thus increasing the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed actions. With the emergent transition of urban lighting to white LED technology, such shifts can bring a variety of negative effects to these environments, thus such actions should be applied taking into account as broad a knowledge set as available. These are often fragmented and incoherent thus in need of actions which unite them into usable and common tools. In the North Atlantic region of Macaronesia, a project has been implemented which uses the negative effects light pollution has on seabird populations as a base to effect changes in the regional lighting schemes, decreasing light pollution and increasing the sustainability of the current LED transition, improving practices and awareness, to the benefit of both seabirds and human populations alike.

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