Opis: The Remembered Land - Jim Leary

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. [Leary's] engaging book combines an effective synthesis of previous research with thought-provoking analysis, deftly conveyed with an evocative, imaginative turn of phrase. Current Archaeology A welcome fresh perspective ... [Leary] points the way for a new understanding of mesolithic lives - and what rising seas may bring today. British Archaeology Jim Leary paints a fascinating portrait of the sunken landscape of the North Sea and the human consequences of sea level rise after the Ice Age. This evocatively written, imaginative essay brings a wide range of highly specialized research to a general audience while causing you to think about the long-term consequences of climate change. A provocative, thought-provoking book to read either when afloat on the North Sea or when contemplating its heaving waves. -- Brian Fagan, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of California, USA, and author of The Attacking Ocean (Bloomsbury, 2013)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

Szczegóły: The Remembered Land - Jim Leary

Tytuł: The Remembered Land
Autor: Jim Leary
Producent: Bloomsbury Professional Ltd
ISBN: 9781474245906
Rok produkcji: 2015
Ilość stron: 176
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.23 kg

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