All Outputs (5)

An over-optimistic pioneer fringe? Environmental perspectives on medieval settlement abandonment in Þórsmörk, south Iceland (2006)
Conference Proceeding
Dugmore, A., Church, M., Mairs, K., McGovern, T., Newton, A., & Sveinbjarnardóttir, G. (2006). An over-optimistic pioneer fringe? Environmental perspectives on medieval settlement abandonment in Þórsmörk, south Iceland. In J. Arneborg, & B. Grønnow (Eds.), Dynamics of northern societies : proceedings of the SILA/NABO Conference on Arctic and North Atlantic Archaeology, Copenhagen, May 10th-14th, 2004 (335-345)

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)
Conference Proceeding
Mairs, K., Church, M., Dugmore, A., & Sveinbjarnardóttir, G. (2006). Degrees of success: evaluating the environmental impacts of long term settlement in south Iceland. In J. Arneborg, & B. Grønnow (Eds.), Dynamics of northern societies : proceedings of the SILA/NABO Conference on Arctic and North Atlantic Archaeology, Copenhagen, May 10th-14th, 2004 (365-373)

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.

Human impact on freshwater environments in Norse and early medieval Iceland (2006)
Conference Proceeding
Lawson, I., Gathorne-Hardy, F., Church, M., Einarsson, A., Edwards, K., Perdikaris, S., …Sveinbjarnardóttir, G. (2006). Human impact on freshwater environments in Norse and early medieval Iceland. In J. Arneborg, & B. Grønnow (Eds.), Dynamics of northern societies : proceedings of the SILA/NABO Conference on Arctic and North Atlantic Archaeology, Copenhagen, May 10th-14th, 2004 (375-382)

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.

Settlement history, land holdings and landscape change, Eyjafjallahreppur, Iceland (2006)
Conference Proceeding
Sveinbjarnardóttir, G., Mairs, K., Church, M., & Dugmore, A. (2006). Settlement history, land holdings and landscape change, Eyjafjallahreppur, Iceland. In J. Arneborg, & B. Grønnow (Eds.), Dynamics of northern societies : proceedings of the SILA/NABO Conference on Arctic and North Atlantic Archaeology, Copenhagen, May 10th-14th, 2004 (323-333)

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.

Assessment survey: Lewis (2003)
Conference Proceeding
Church, M., & Burgess, C. (2003). Assessment survey: Lewis. In T. Dawson (Ed.), Coastal erosion and archaeology in Scotland (55-64)