Feeding the Vikings

ISBN-13: 9781894508100 / Angielski

Martin F. Kilmer; Peter J. Scott

Opis

Feeding the Vikings presents the landscape of northern Newfoundland in dramatic and beautiful photographs. For each plant (and for each cluster of related plants) we present a general landscape photograph -- 'This is the sort of place where you might find this plant' -- and one or more photographs of the plant and its common companions. We then present photographs of the plant in its most important stages: these may include winter state (for woody plants: most of the herbaceous plants are simply invisible in winter), usually with details of lower buds and seasonal growth buds; early spring state; flower buds both new and maturing; flower; fertilized ovary; immature fruit; mature fruit; late fall state. This book will be used as a field guide to the edible plants of Northern Newfoundland and the near Labrador coast. We expect it to be useful to archaeologists of the New World, and to anyone who is interested in the archaeology of eastern North America: these plants were available for use not only to the Vikings, but to the many native groups who lived in (or regularly visited) the region over the past five thousand years: Maritime Archaic Indians; Eskimos (Dorset and Thule); the ancestors of Beothuk, Inuit, and Innu. They were also present for later European settlers - the Basques at Red bay; Basques, French, and (later) English at Bird Cove/Plum Point and all around the 'French Shore'.