Books Details
Author : Jim Leary Pages : 176 pages Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic Language
: ISBN-10 : 1474245900 ISBN-13 : 9781474245906
Books Descriptions
How did small-scale societies in the past experience and respond to sea-level
rise? What happened when their dwellings, hunting grounds and ancestral lands
were lost under an advancing tide? This book asks these questions in relation to
the hunter-gatherer inhabitants of a lost prehistoric land; a land that became
entirely inundated and now lies beneath the North Sea. It seeks to understand
how these people viewed and responded to their changing environment,
suggesting that people were not struggling against nature, but simply getting on
with life ? with all its trials and hardships, satisfactions and pleasures, and with a
multitude of choices available. At the same time, this loss of land ? the loss of
places and familiar locales where myths were created and identities formed ?
would have profoundly affected people's sense of being. This book moves
beyond the static approach normally applied to environmental change in the
past to capture its nuances. Through this, a richer and more
