Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 164 pages)
,
Illustrationen, Karte
Edition:
2014
ISBN:
9781474245944
,
9781474245920
,
9781474245937
Series Statement:
Debates in archaeology
Content:
"How did small-scale societies in the past experience and respond to sea-level rise? What happened when their dwellings, hunting grounds and ancestral lands were lost under an advancing tide? This book asks these questions in relation to the hunter-gatherer inhabitants of a lost prehistoric land; a land that became entirely inundated and now lies beneath the North Sea. It seeks to understand how these people viewed and responded to their changing environment, suggesting that people were not struggling against nature, but simply getting on with life--with all its trials and hardships, satisfactions and pleasures, and with a multitude of choices available. At the same time, this loss of land--the loss of places and familiar locales where myths were created and identities formed--would have profoundly affected people's sense of being. This book moves beyond the static approach normally applied to environmental change in the past to capture its nuances. Through this, a richer and more complex story of past sea-level rise develops; a story that may just have resonance for us today."--
Content:
Part 1: Landscape -- Recognising Northsealand -- Thinking the Imagined Land -- The People of Northsealand -- Shaping the World with Ice and Sea -- Part 2: Effects -- Changing Worlds and Changing Worldviews -- Losing Place -- Part 3: Responses -- Living in a Changing World -- Networks and Social Memory -- Being Pragmatic -- Part 4: To end -- The Remembered Land -- Epilogue
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781474245913
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781474245906
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Leary, Jim The remembered land London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015 ISBN 9781474245906
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781474245913
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Doggerbank
;
Vor- und Frühgeschichte
DOI:
10.5040/9781474245944
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