Comparing norse animal husbandry practices: Paleoethnobotanical analyses from Iceland and Greenland

Arctic Anthropology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 62-85

  Ross, Julie M ^a   Zutter, Cynthia ^b  

^a Government of Nunavut   (Canada)

^b MACEWAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; COLONY; ETHNOBOTANY; FODDER; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; SHRUB; SOCIAL HISTORY;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); FAROE ISLANDS; GREENLAND; ICELAND;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BOTANY; CATERING SERVICE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENT; ETHNOLOGY; GREENLAND; HISTORY; ICELAND;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ARCHAEOLOGY; BOTANY; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD SUPPLY; GREENLAND; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; ICELAND;

EID: 34548212248     PISSN: 00666939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/arc.2011.0089     Document Type: Article

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