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.

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.

North Sea--Antiquities.

North Sea.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Place of Publication:

London Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2015.

Language Note:

English

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

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

Contents:

Part 1: Landscape

Recognising Northsealand

Thinking the Imagined Land

The People of Northsealand

Shaping the World with Ice and Sea

Part 2: Effects

Changing Worlds and Changing Worldviews

Losing Place

Part 3: Responses

Living in a Changing World

Networks and Social Memory

Being Pragmatic

Part 4: To end

The Remembered Land

Epilogue

Part 1: To begin

Chapter 1 Recognising Northsealand

Part 2: Landscape

Chapter 2 Thinking the Imagined Land

Chapter 3 The People of Northsealand

Chapter 4 Shaping the World with Ice and Sea

Part 3: Effects

Chapter 5 Changing Worlds and Changing Worldviews

Chapter 6 Losing Place

Part 4: Responses

Chapter 7 Living in a Changing World

Chapter 8 Knowledge, Networks and Social Memory

Chapter 9 Being Pragmatic

Part 5: To end

Chapter 10 The Remembered Land

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

9781474245944

1474245943

9781474245937

1474245935

OCLC:

913513662