Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions

Archaeological Perspectives on Hunter-Gatherer Landscapes and Resource Management in Interior North Norway - Marianne Skandfer

Bryan C. Hood [+-]
UiT - the Arctic University of Norway
Bryan C. Hood is Professor Emeritus of Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology, History, Religious Studies and Theology at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway. His research interests focus on Arctic and Subarctic hunter-gatherers, with fieldwork in northeastern Canada, Greenland, northern Norway and northwest Russia. He has published a book on the archaeology of northern Labrador, Canada, and papers on various aspects of the northern Norwegian Stone Age, including lithic procurement, Mesolithic settlement of the interior and coastal shellfish use. He is currently working on books dealing with Stone Age houses dated ca. 2000 BC in northeastern Norway and on the Kola Peninsula, Russia.
Hans Peter Blankholm [+-]
UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
Hans Peter Blankholm is Professor Emeritus of archaeology at the Department of Archaeology, History, Religious Studies and Theology, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway. His research covers Stone Age archaeology of Scandinavia, analytical methodology relating to spatial analyses, GIS, remote sensing, predictive modelling and biochemical analyses of foodways. Professor Blankholm is a member of the board for the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division within the European Academy of Sciences, and a member of UISPP Commission IV Quantitative Methods.

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Establishing an environmental history framework is foundational for archaeological studies of landscape relations. The rapid accumulation of high-resolution climate change data from northern Fennoscandia in recent years has resulted in a much more complex picture than was previously available, so much so that it is beyond the capacity of this chapter to provide more than a summary. We begin with a short discussion of the North Atlantic climate system because its dynamics strongly condition the proxy data sources we consider here. After a brief consideration of deglaciation processes during the Late Pleistocene to Holocene transition, we provide an overview of Holocene vegetation history in northern Fennoscandia, as inferred from pollen and dendrochronological proxies. We then turn to the main trends in climate change and their implications for human responses.

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Hood, Bryan; Blankholm, Hans Peter. Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions. Archaeological Perspectives on Hunter-Gatherer Landscapes and Resource Management in Interior North Norway. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 142-171 Dec 2024. ISBN 9781781798171. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=33993. Date accessed: 21 Nov 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.33993. Dec 2024

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