TY - BOOK ID - 46270472 TI - Fish trade in Medieval North Atlantic societies PY - 2018 SN - 9048533147 9789048533145 9048551307 9462983216 9789462983212 PB - Amsterdam DB - UniCat KW - Commerce KW - History KW - Fish trade KW - Fishing villages KW - Maritime anthropology KW - Villages KW - Fish industry KW - Fisheries trade KW - Fisheries KW - Seafood industry KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46270472 AB - 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. ER -