Remembered Land

Remembered Land

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Leary, Jim
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
EAN: 9781474245906
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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.
EAN 9781474245906
ISBN 1474245900
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication date October 22, 2015
Pages 176
Language English
Dimensions 216 x 138
Country United Kingdom
Authors Leary, Jim
Illustrations 10 bw illus
Series Debates in Archaeology