Islands: Isolation and connectivity  

Congrès, colloques, réunions

 

du 1er au 3 avril 2016
Kirkwall, Orkney

Archaeology Institute, University of the Highlands and Islands 

 

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Association for Environmental Archaeology conference 2016
(with meetings of the Professional Zooarchaeology Working Group and the Archaeomalacology Working Group) 

The notion of the island as a laboratory, as a world in microcosm with well-defined boundaries, is an appealing and long established cliché. For almost two centuries, we have explored the distinctive biological and historical trajectories of different islands, and have identified a variety of ‘island effects’; on plants and animals and on human communities. Such work demonstrates that many islands offered distinctive potentials (and barriers) for social and ecological development. [...]

 

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