| 8 results for projects related to 'population' |
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| Project Title: | Fluorine poisoning in victims of the 1793-84 eruption of the Laki fissure |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=116 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | The eruption of the Laki fissure was the greatest calamity to affect Iceland since its settlement. It is estimated that 20% of the population died from starvation and disease. The aim of this project is to investigate causes of death in people wh...[More] |
| Project Title: | The Norse Settlement in the Vatnahverfi Region, South Greenland c. AD 985 - c. AD 1450 Greenland - The Vatnahverfi Project - Settlement, economy, and depopulation. |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=17 |
| Country: | Greenland |
| Description: | The aim of the programme is to discuss landnam (landtaking) strategies and the later depopulation in the light of the interplay between the two economic spheres of the Norse Greenland Economy: subsistence based on the resources of the local, settled ...[More] |
| Keywords: | Norse,Eastern,Settlement,Vatnahverfi,Settlement,Structure,Economy,Identity,Mobility,Communication |
| Project Title: | Gufuskálar |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=95 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Region: | Snæfellsbær |
| Description: | The farm of Gufuskálar lies on the westernmost tip of the Snæfellsnes peninsula under the glacier known as Snæfellsjökull. While the farm likely dates to the Viking Age the site was home to a mysterious and intensive commercial fishing venture during...[More] |
| Keywords: | medieval, commercial fishing, fishing, fishing station, cod |
| Project Title: | Snow, landscape and people: Modelling variations in snow distribution and melt across the landscape and the implications for human activities |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=130 |
| Country: | Greenland |
| Region: | Arctic |
| Description: | The quantity and distribution of snow across landscapes and timing of the spring snowmelt is key to a diverse range of processes, from the hydrological cycle and glaciation through to ecological and human-environment interactions. Many snow-covered...[More] |
| Keywords: | Snow, modelling, Arctic populations |
| Project Title: | Tephrochronology and landscape change in Skaftartunga |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=129 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Region: | Skaftartunga |
| Description: | This project used very high resolution sediment accumulation records to analyse the environmental impact of population changes in this region of Iceland since Landnam, and finished in 2011. The main results are in Richard Streeter's PhD thesis and in...[More] |
| Keywords: | tephrochronology,little,ice,age,plague,geomorphology,population |
| Project Title: | The Archaeology of Climate Change in the Caribbean The Archaeology of Climate Change in the Caribbean |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=153 |
| Country: | Cuba |
| Region: | Caribbean |
| Description: | Pre-Colombian populations in the Caribbean, from 5000 BC to AD 1492, lived through more than five metres relative sea level rise, marked variation in annual rainfall and periodic intensification of hurricane activity. This Leverhulme funded project ...[More] |
| Keywords: | Caribbean, Climate Variability, Environmental Change, Hazards, |
| Project Title: | The Assembly Project - Meeting-places in Northern Europe AD 400-1500 The Assembly Project - Meeting-places in Northern Europe AD 400-1500 |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=126 |
| Country: | Other |
| Description: | The Assembly Project – Meeting-places in Northern Europe AD 400-1500 (TAP) is an international collaborative research project. TAP aims to investigate the role of assemblies (things) in the creation of collective identities and emergent kingdom...[More] |
| Keywords: | thing, assembly, Norse, Iceland, Shetland, Norway |
| Project Title: | OITIS The Operation of International Trade in Iceland and Shetland c. 1400-1700 |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=12 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | The project will examine the development, operation and impact of European trade in two areas in the north Atlantic - Iceland and Shetland. In the early 15th century both were part of the Danish kingdom but, with the pledging of Shetland in 1469, it ...[More] |
| Keywords: | Hanseatic League,trade,fish,Middle Ages,post-medieval |