The Significance of Remote Resource Regions for Norse Greenland
Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: Today the great economic signifi cance of outlying regions for medieval agricultural societies is well appreciated. In these peripheral – and often relatively extensively used – regions, hunting, fi shing, summer grazing, and collection of fuel took place. The outlying regions were not distinct from the settlement areas. Instead they were part of a larger resource region and well integrated into the cultural, economic and social systems of the settlements. In marginal regions, where the settlement areas were unable to support the population, the outlying regions were more important than in wealthier regions. The more marginal the region, the more remote were the outlying regions that were exploited. The most exceptional example of this can be found in Norse Greenland, where the economy seems to have been completely dependent on resources over 800 kilometres away from the settlements (Arneborg 1998, 2003; McGovern 1985; Seaver 1996, 2000). The dependence on such distant outlying regions can only
Author: Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist
Language: Swedish
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1719433459