The remembered land : surviving sea-level rise after the last Ice Age / Jim Leary ; with illustrations by Elaine Jamieson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leary, Jim, author.

Series:

Debates in archaeology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sea level--Social aspects--North Sea Region--History--To 1500.

Sea level.

Sea level--Environmental aspects--North Sea Region--History--To 1500.

Prehistoric peoples--North Sea Region--Social conditions.

Prehistoric peoples.

Hunting and gathering societies--North Sea Region--History--To 1500.

Hunting and gathering societies.

Human ecology--North Sea Region--History--To 1500.

Human ecology.

Climatic changes--Social aspects--North Sea Region--History--To 1500.

Climatic changes.

Coast changes--Social aspects--North Sea Region--History--To 1500.

Coast changes.

Landscape changes--Social aspects--North Sea Region--History--To 1500.

Landscape changes.

Glacial epoch--North Sea Region.

Glacial epoch.

Social aspects.

History.

Climatic changes--Social aspects.

Social conditions.

Sea level--Environmental aspects.

North Sea--Antiquities.

North Sea.

Physical Description:

164 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1. To Begin : Recognizing Northsealand

Part 2. Landscape : Thinking the Imagined Land

The People of Northsealand

Shaping the World with Ice and Sea

Part 3. Effects : Changing Worlds

Losing Place

Part 4. Responses : Living in a Changing World

Knowledge, Networks and Social Memory

Being Pragmatic

Part 5. To end : The Remembered Land

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474245913

1474245919

9781474245906

1474245900

OCLC:

900913500

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