Военная история / Ancient Scandinavia: An Archaeological History from the First Humans to the Vikings

Название: Ancient Scandinavia: An Archaeological History from the First Humans to the Vikings
Автор(ы): T. Douglas Price
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2015
ISBN 10: 0190231971
Страниц: 520
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 179 MB

Although occupied only relatively briefly in the long span of world prehistory, Scandinavia is an extraordinary laboratory for investigating past human societies. The area was essentially unoccupied until the end of the last Ice Age when the melting of huge ice sheets left behind a fresh, barren land surface, which was eventually covered by flora and fauna. The first humans did not arrive until sometime after 13,500 BCE. The prehistoric remains of human activity in Scandinavia - much of it remarkably preserved in its bogs, lakes, and fjords - have given archaeologists a richly detailed portrait of the evolution of human society.