Failure and Colonialism in the North American Fur Trade: The View from Riverine Assemblages
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DOI: 10.1007/s41636-020-00272-2
Abstract: It is understandable that archaeologists studying the North American fur trade often do so through the excavation and analysis of terrestrial sites. This article takes an alternative approach, analyzing assemblages that resulted from canoe accidents.… read more here.
Keywords: archaeology; american fur; north american; que ... See more keywords
Palaeoproteomics identifies beaver fur in Danish high-status Viking Age burials - direct evidence of fur trade
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0270040
Abstract: Fur is known from contemporary written sources to have been a key commodity in the Viking Age. Nevertheless, the fur trade has been notoriously difficult to study archaeologically as fur rarely survives in the archaeological… read more here.
Keywords: fur trade; viking age; fur; beaver fur ... See more keywords