Being an Islander: Production and Identity at Quoygrew, Orkney, Ad 900-1600

Quoygrew - a settlement of farmers and fishers on the island of Westray in Orkney - was continuously occupied from the tenth century until 1937. Focusing on the archaeology of its first 700 years, this volume explores how 'small worlds' both reflected and impacted the fundamental pan-European watersheds of the Middle Ages: the growth of population, economic production and trade from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries and the subsequent economic and demographic retrenchment of the fourteenth to fifteenth centuries. Concurrently, it addresses the nature of island societies, with distinctive identities shaped by the interplay of isolation and interconnectedness.

Summary

Quoygrew - a settlement of farmers and fishers on the island of Westray in Orkney - was continuously occupied from the tenth century until 1937.

Product details

• Assisted by: James Barrett (Editor), James H. Barrett (Editor), David C. Orton (Editor)
• Publisher: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2012
• EAN: 9781902937618
• ISBN: 978-1-902937-61-8
• No. of pages: 358
• Dimensions: 221 mm x 282 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 1633 g
• Series: McDonald Institute Monographs; McDonald Institute Monograph; McDonald Institute Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity