Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0063347

Zusammenfassung

Let me loose on Svalbard! The island group also known as Spitsbergen lies in a seemingly Timeless Arctic. It is uniquely placed to study commercial hunting in the reconstruction of human impact on a polar ecosystem: clear boundaries, no prior subsistence hunting by indigenous peoples, and a first contact with European explorers in 1596. The evidence of the subsequent profit-driven decimation of its wildlife (including bowhead whale, Atlantic walrus, polar bear, Arctic fox, and Svalbard reindeer) is locked up in the vast treasure chest of international archives, museum collections, and material...