A Growing Success? Agricultural intensification and risk management in Late Iron Age Orkney.
No === The agricultural ¿revolution¿ in Iron Age Orkney is the subject of Julie Bond¿s paper. Focusing on Pool in Sanday, she outlines the perceived changes in animal husbandry and cultivation over the lifetime of the settlement ¿ changes she describes as ¿innovations and intensification in the a...
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10454/3085 |
| Summary: | No === The agricultural ¿revolution¿ in Iron Age Orkney is the subject of Julie Bond¿s paper.
Focusing on Pool in Sanday, she outlines the perceived changes in animal husbandry and cultivation over the lifetime of the settlement ¿ changes she describes as ¿innovations and intensification in the agricultural economy of Orkney before the arrival of the Vikings.¿
The apparent success of these Iron Age farming settlements may well be, she adds, the reason they may have been early targets for Scandinavian settlers. |
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