Resumo
The MARGAIN project works towards a holistic understanding of marine resource use and its impact on settlement patterns and lifeways along the west coast of Norway from the Viking Age to the Early Modern Period, and will use this knowledge to inform and promote sustainable future exploitation and management of marine resources. In comparison with material from Iceland, we will explore the value of marine ecosystem services to past communities. We will also use our studies of past marine resource use to raise awareness of current environmental issues in the face of global change processes. Coastal cultural heritage sites are disproportionately at risk from the effects of climate change, especially through erosion from rising sea levels and increasingly violent storms. Driftwood, which was important as timber and as fuel in northern Norway and the North Atlantic, is now declining due to the combined effects of climate change and river management.
Palabras chave
Marine resource use. Driftwood. Archaeobotany. Wood analysis. Viking Age. Early Modern Period. Norway. North Atlantic.