The Viking world was a different world from ours. Archaeologists, scientists, historians, geographers, and scholars work in different fields, using different methods, answering different questions, but with the same driving compulsion – to understand more about what the world of the Vikings looked and felt like. If we dig a little deeper into this Viking narrative, we find a whole raft of changes to landscapes, environments and societies which enable these transitions throughout the Viking Age.
Viking Age Environments
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The Viking world was a different world from ours. Archaeologists, scientists, historians, geographers, and scholars work in different fields, using different methods, answering different questions, but with the same driving compulsion – to understand more about what the world of the Vikings looked and felt like. If we dig a little deeper into this Viking narrative, we find a whole raft of changes to landscapes, environments and societies which enable these transitions throughout the Viking Age.
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May 21, 2021
Greenland’s Changing Climates
<p>In Episode 3, Rebecca talks to Rowan Jackson at the School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh about his work on how the Norse adapted their way of Scandinavian way of living to the harsh climate of Greenland. We talk about the hows and whys of these lifestyle choices, before discussing the successes and failures of the Vikings in Greenland. Moving on from this, we talk more generally about Rowan’s work on global change research and climate change archaeology.</p> <p>730 - audiogram -915</p> <p>7,15 Value of archaeological record.<br> 9,30 Why did the Norse move to the North Atlantic?<br> 12,00 Pull to Greenland - walrus ivory & (relatively) mild climate<br> 13,30 Population estimates & peak settlement in Greenland<br> 16,00 Viking farming toolkit<br> 18,00 Hunting strategies & adaptation strategies<br> 19,00 Landscape learning<br> 22,00 Greenland's short active season<br> 26,45 TEK (Traditional Ecological Knowledge) & cultural landscapes in Greenland<br> 29,00 Adaptive toolkit responds to changes in seal populations<br> 30,45 Transposing children's learning landscapes, Viking v Thule - cultural transmission<br> 34,00 Miniature objects - toys & material culture<br> 37,30 Children in urban contexts<br> 40,30 Hegemonic masculinities & identities in urban contexts<br> 49,00 Climate changes in the 14th century & TEK becomes less relevant<br> 52,00 Cultural path dependence leaves the Norse less able to react to these changes<br> 54,00 Changing European demands and politics affect Greenland<br> 56,00 Population changes impact the abilities of the Norse to get to those resources that they need<br> 60,00 Norse adaptive capacity is pushed to the limit, beyond capacity?<br> 65,00 Evidence for leaving? Or a bias in the record? <br> 72,30 What's the most important thing you can tell me about this? <br> 75,00 The hermeneutic cycle of interpretation and reinterpretation<br> 77,45 What is Global Change Research? What is Archaeology's role in GCR? <br> 80,00 Shifting baselines, e.g. cod fishing & contribution of archaeological research to reconstructing historical cod populations<br> 82,00 Discrete archaeological examples of change/adaptation/collapse and the lessons we can learn from these examples for the future. <br> 85,00 Adaptation, vulnerability, and social context. <br> 87,30 Social Contract & working with local communities<br> 90,30 Relationships between communities, museums as trusted spaces, and potential for archaeologists to engage via exhibitions. <br> <br> <br> </p>
May 21, 2021
Volcanoes, Floods and Landscapes
<p>In Episode 2, Rebecca talks to Ingar Mørkestøl Gundersen about how modern flooding in Norway’s Gudbrandsdalen valley led him to consider the effects of big climatic events in the lead-up to the Viking Age. Ingar Mørkestøl Gundersen is an archaeologist with the Cultural History Museum in Oslo. He graduated from the University of Oslo with a major in archeology in 2007 before going to work as a field archaeologist in Norway, England, Russia, Greece and Sweden. Ingar is completing his PhD thesis entitled Years without summers. AD 536: Crisis or adaptation in conjunction with the Museum and the University of Oslo. His interests lie in the junctures between rescue archaeology, extreme weather events (floods and volcanoes), the effects of climate cooling and the nature of societal vulnerability to these events.</p> <p><br></p> <p>2,15 Gudbrandsdalen archaeological complex<br> 3,30 6th century cooling, disaster theory & societal vulnerability<br> 6,30 6th century crisis, but not the same crisis everywhere<br> 8,30 Explainer of Fimbulwinter<br> 9,45 1815 Mount Tambora eruption<br> 13,30 Ragnarok and volcanic eruptions<br> 15,00 What happens in the 6th century in Scandinavia and the rest of Europe<br> 19,30 Agriculture, wheat and barley crops and modelling growing temperatures<br> 23,00 Regional variations, complexity<br> 24,00 Pollen cores in the Gudbrandsvalley & population changes<br> 26,45 6th century as collapse or transition?<br> 29,45 Anticipating crisis before crisis happens? Catastrophisation at work<br> 33,35 Justinian Plague & population centres<br> 37,00 Crisis as catalyst or 'a window of opportunity'<br> 37,30 Warrior aristocracies in Scandinavia & 'the charismatic leader'<br> 40,30 What's the most important thing we need to do when we examine this data?<br> 42,45 Vulnerability as a concept<br> 46,30 Combine the grand narrative with the detail of the data <br> </p>
May 21, 2021
Cities, Towns and People
<p>In Episode 1, Rebecca talks to Annalee Newitz about their new book Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age. Four Lost Cities is a journey into the forgotten past, but, foreseeing a future in which the majority of people on Earth will be living in cities, it may also reveal something of our own fate. Here, listen to Rebecca and Annalee talk about what it is that makes urban life urban, what happens in cities, and how people come together in cities. </p> <p><br></p> <p>2,20 "The delightful chance meetings and life-changing random encounters" of urban life<br> 5,30 Feasts and parties<br> 7,30 Role of farming, city versus country, agriculture as a part of the urban process <br> 11,30 Change and transition in community,<br> 14,30 Early Viking Dublin <br> 18,00 Towns and Cities along travel routes<br> 20,30 Cahokia & its pyramids<br> 25,00 Role of religion in coming together to create urban places<br> 30,00 Populations and comparative sizes of settlements<br> 34,15 Migration to cities & labour forces<br> 38,00 Slavery<br> 40,00 Responses of cities to their environments, resilience and materiality of settlement<br> 47,00 Hinterland relationships<br> 51,30 City at the centre of its network<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> </p> <p><br> </p> <p><br></p>
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