The economics of sheep and goat husbandry in Norse Greenland

Arctic Anthropology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 103-120

  Mainland, Ingrid ^a   Halstead, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; FARMING SYSTEM; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; LIVESTOCK FARMING; MEDIEVAL;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; GREENLAND; WORLD;

CAPRA HIRCUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 24944567812     PISSN: 00666939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/arc.2011.0060     Document Type: Article

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