Being an Islander
Production and Identity at Quoygrew, Orkney, AD 900-1600
Published on 1. October 2012
Book
Hardback
358 pages
978-1-902937-61-8 (ISBN)
Description
Quoygrew - a settlement of farmers and fishers on the island of Westray in Orkney - was continuously occupied from the tenth century until 1937. Focusing on the archaeology of its first 700 years, this volume explores how 'small worlds' both reflected and impacted the fundamental pan-European watersheds of the Middle Ages: the growth of population, economic production and trade from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries and the subsequent economic and demographic retrenchment of the fourteenth to fifteenth centuries. Concurrently, it addresses the nature of island societies, with distinctive identities shaped by the interplay of isolation and interconnectedness.
Reviews / Votes
Overall, this monograph is an exemplary contribution to environmental archaeology in general, and to medieval North Atlantic studies in particular. -- David Griffiths Medieval Archaeology Vol. 57 (2013)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Illus.
Dimensions
Height: 282 mm
Width: 221 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
1633 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-902937-61-8 (9781902937618)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
1. Introduction: the Study of Island Societies (J.H. Barrett)
2. Viking Age and Medieval Orkney (J.H. Barrett)
3. Quoygrew and its Landscape Context (J.H. Barrett, L.R. Farr, D. Redhouse, S. Richer, J. Zimmermann, L. Sharpe, S. Ovenden, J. Moore, T. Poller, K.B. Milek, I.A. Simpson, M. Smith, B. Gourley & T. O'Connor)
4. The Quoygrew Sequence (J.H. Barrett & J.F. Gerrard)
5. Ecofact Recovery and Patterns of Deposition (J.H. Barrett & J.F. Harland)
6. The Maritime Economy: Mollusc Shell (N. Milner & J.H. Barrett)
7. The Maritime Economy: Fish Bone (J.F. Harland & J.H. Barrett)
8. Animal Husbandry: the Mammal Bone (J.F. Harland)
9. Fowling: the Bird Bone (J.F. Harland, R.A. Bennett, J.I. Andrews, T. O'Connor & J.H. Barrett)
10. Arable Agriculture and Gathering: the Botanical Evidence (C.T. Adams, S.L. Poaps & J.P. Huntley)
11. Feeding the Livestock: the Stable Isotope Evidence (J.H. Barrett & M.P. Richards)
12. Local Availability and Long-range Trade: the Worked Stone Assemblage (C.E. Batey, A.K. Forster, R.E. Jones, G. Gaunt, F.J. Breckenridge, J. Bunbury & J.H. Barrett)
13. Evidence of Exchange Networks: the Combs and other Worked Skeletal Material (S.P. Ashby with a contribution by C.E. Batey)
14. The Metal Finds and their Implications (N.S.H. Rogers, C.E. Batey, N.M.McQ. Holmes & J.H. Barrett)
15. Interpreting the Ceramics and Glass (D.W. Hall, L. Blackmore, G. Haggarty, S. Chenery, D. Gallagher, C.E. Batey & J.H. Barrett)
16. Being an Islander (J.H. Barrett)
2. Viking Age and Medieval Orkney (J.H. Barrett)
3. Quoygrew and its Landscape Context (J.H. Barrett, L.R. Farr, D. Redhouse, S. Richer, J. Zimmermann, L. Sharpe, S. Ovenden, J. Moore, T. Poller, K.B. Milek, I.A. Simpson, M. Smith, B. Gourley & T. O'Connor)
4. The Quoygrew Sequence (J.H. Barrett & J.F. Gerrard)
5. Ecofact Recovery and Patterns of Deposition (J.H. Barrett & J.F. Harland)
6. The Maritime Economy: Mollusc Shell (N. Milner & J.H. Barrett)
7. The Maritime Economy: Fish Bone (J.F. Harland & J.H. Barrett)
8. Animal Husbandry: the Mammal Bone (J.F. Harland)
9. Fowling: the Bird Bone (J.F. Harland, R.A. Bennett, J.I. Andrews, T. O'Connor & J.H. Barrett)
10. Arable Agriculture and Gathering: the Botanical Evidence (C.T. Adams, S.L. Poaps & J.P. Huntley)
11. Feeding the Livestock: the Stable Isotope Evidence (J.H. Barrett & M.P. Richards)
12. Local Availability and Long-range Trade: the Worked Stone Assemblage (C.E. Batey, A.K. Forster, R.E. Jones, G. Gaunt, F.J. Breckenridge, J. Bunbury & J.H. Barrett)
13. Evidence of Exchange Networks: the Combs and other Worked Skeletal Material (S.P. Ashby with a contribution by C.E. Batey)
14. The Metal Finds and their Implications (N.S.H. Rogers, C.E. Batey, N.M.McQ. Holmes & J.H. Barrett)
15. Interpreting the Ceramics and Glass (D.W. Hall, L. Blackmore, G. Haggarty, S. Chenery, D. Gallagher, C.E. Batey & J.H. Barrett)
16. Being an Islander (J.H. Barrett)