Outputs (106)

Environmental impacts of the Norse settlement: palaeoenvironmental data from Mývatnssveit, northern Iceland (2007)
Journal Article
Lawson, I., Gathorne-Hardy, F., Church, M., Newton, A., Edwards, K., Dugmore, A., & Einarsson, Á. (2007). Environmental impacts of the Norse settlement: palaeoenvironmental data from Mývatnssveit, northern Iceland. Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research, 36(1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/03009480600827298

The first stratigraphically continuous pollen profile spanning the Norse and Medieval periods from the archaeologically-rich My´vatnssveit region of northern Iceland is presented. Detailed analyses were made of the tephra, sediment characteristics, p... Read More about Environmental impacts of the Norse settlement: palaeoenvironmental data from Mývatnssveit, northern Iceland.

Carbonized plant macrofossils and charcoal (2006)
Book Chapter
Church, M., & Cressey, M. (2006). Carbonized plant macrofossils and charcoal. In I. Armit (Ed.), Anatomy of an Iron Age roundhouse : the Cnip wheelhouse excavations, Lewis (182-194). Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

Environmental analyses from Northton (2006)
Book Chapter
Church, M. (2006). Environmental analyses from Northton. In D. Simpson, E. Murphy, & R. Gregory (Eds.), Excavations at Northton, Isle of Harris (26-40). Archaeopress

Human impact on freshwater environments in Norse and early medieval Iceland (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lawson, I., Gathorne-Hardy, F., Church, M., Einarsson, A., Edwards, K., Perdikaris, S., McGovern, T., Amundsen, C., & Sveinbjarnardóttir, G. (2006, June). Human impact on freshwater environments in Norse and early medieval Iceland. Presented at Dynamics of Northern Societies - Proceedings of the SILA/NABO-conference on Arctic and North Atlantic Archaeology

Preliminary data from fish bone assemblages preserved in middens at Norse and early medieval farm sites in Mývatnssveit, northern Iceland, suggest that the pattern of fish exploitation changed during the first few centuries following the settlement.... Read More about Human impact on freshwater environments in Norse and early medieval Iceland.

An over-optimistic pioneer fringe? Environmental perspectives on medieval settlement abandonment in Þórsmörk, south Iceland (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dugmore, A., Church, M., Mairs, K.-A., McGovern, T., Newton, A., & Sveinbjarnardóttir, G. (2006, June). An over-optimistic pioneer fringe? Environmental perspectives on medieval settlement abandonment in Þórsmörk, south Iceland. Presented at Dynamics of Northern Societies - Proceedings of the SILA/NABO-conference on Arctic and North Atlantic Archaeology

We assess environmental factors that may have contributed to farm abandonment in Þórsmörk, south Iceland. Here farms were established during the initial Norse colonisation of Iceland and abandoned by the 13th century AD. Soil erosion has been identif... Read More about An over-optimistic pioneer fringe? Environmental perspectives on medieval settlement abandonment in Þórsmörk, south Iceland.

Degrees of success: evaluating the environmental impacts of long term settlement in south Iceland (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mairs, K.-A., Church, M., Dugmore, A., & Sveinbjarnardóttir, G. (2006, June). Degrees of success: evaluating the environmental impacts of long term settlement in south Iceland. Presented at Dynamics of Northern Societies - Proceedings of the SILA/NABO-conference on Arctic and North Atlantic Archaeology

This paper focuses on the occupation and landscape history of Dalur and Mörk, two areas of long-term settlement in the Eyjafjallahreppur district of southern Iceland. The aim is to illustrate the importance of evaluating not only farm occupation and... Read More about Degrees of success: evaluating the environmental impacts of long term settlement in south Iceland.

Variability in North Atlantic marine radiocarbon reservoir effects at c.1000 AD (2006)
Journal Article
Ascough, P., Cook, G., Church, M., Dugmore, A., Arge, S., & McGovern, T. (2006). Variability in North Atlantic marine radiocarbon reservoir effects at c.1000 AD. Holocene, 16(1), 131-136. https://doi.org/10.1191/0959683606hl913rr

14C age measurements made on samples from three archaeological sites located on North Atlantic coasts were used to investigate the marine reservoir effect (MRE) at c.1000 AD. This is an important period within human cultural and paleoenvironmental re... Read More about Variability in North Atlantic marine radiocarbon reservoir effects at c.1000 AD.

Settlement history, land holdings and landscape change, Eyjafjallahreppur, Iceland (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sveinbjarnardóttir, G., Mairs, K.-A., Church, M., & Dugmore, A. (2006, December). Settlement history, land holdings and landscape change, Eyjafjallahreppur, Iceland. Presented at Dynamics of Northern Societies - Proceedings of the SILA/NABO-conference on Arctic and North Atlantic Archaeology

In this paper we focus on a region in south Iceland and assess the confidence with which it is possible to determine the changing patterns of settlement history for a region and relate it to contemporaneous land boundaries. For a geographically coher... Read More about Settlement history, land holdings and landscape change, Eyjafjallahreppur, Iceland.

Archaeological evidence for the first Mesolithic occupation of the Western Isles of Scotland (2005)
Journal Article
Gregory, R., Murphy, E., Church, M., Edwards, K., Guttmann, E., & Simpson, D. (2005). Archaeological evidence for the first Mesolithic occupation of the Western Isles of Scotland. Holocene, 15(7), 944-950. https://doi.org/10.1191/0959683605hl868ft

The examination of eroding coastal dunes at the prehistoric site of Northton, Harris, has produced the first archaeological evidence of Mesolithic activity in the Western Isles in the form of two midden-related deposits. The first phase of Mesolithic... Read More about Archaeological evidence for the first Mesolithic occupation of the Western Isles of Scotland.

Puffins, pigs, cod, and barley : palaeoeconomy at Undir Junkarinsfløtti, Sandoy, Faroe (2005)
Journal Article
Church, M., Arge, S., Brewington, S., McGovern, T., Woollett, J., Perdikaris, S., …Dunbar, E. (2005). Puffins, pigs, cod, and barley : palaeoeconomy at Undir Junkarinsfløtti, Sandoy, Faroe. Environmental Archaeology, 10(2), 179-197

This paper reports on the zooarchaeological and archaeobotanical remains from the first season of excavations at the Norse period site at Undir Junakarinsfløtti in the Faroe islands. These remains represent the first zooarchaeological analysis undert... Read More about Puffins, pigs, cod, and barley : palaeoeconomy at Undir Junkarinsfløtti, Sandoy, Faroe.