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Mealasta, Tigh nan Cailleachan Dubha (2011)
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Caldwell, D., Gilmour, S., & Church, M. (2011). Mealasta, Tigh nan Cailleachan Dubha. Discovery and excavation in Scotland, 12,

Temporal and spatial variations in freshwater 14C reservoir effects: Lake Mývatn, northern Iceland (2010)
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Ascough, P., Cook, G., Church, M., Dunbar, E., Á, E., McGovern, T., …Gestsdóttir, H. (2010). Temporal and spatial variations in freshwater 14C reservoir effects: Lake Mývatn, northern Iceland. Radiocarbon, 52(2-3), 1098-1112

Lake Mývatn is an interior highland lake in northern Iceland that forms a unique ecosystem of international scientific importance and is surrounded by a landscape rich in archaeological and palaeoenvironmental sites. A significant Freshwater 14C Rese... Read More about Temporal and spatial variations in freshwater 14C reservoir effects: Lake Mývatn, northern Iceland.

Northton, Harris (2010)
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Bishop, R., Church, M., & Rowley-Conwy, P. (2010). Northton, Harris. Discovery and excavation in Scotland, 11,

Cereals, fruits and nuts in the Scottish Neolithic (2009)
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Bishop, R., Church, M., & Rowley-Conwy, P. (2009). Cereals, fruits and nuts in the Scottish Neolithic. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 139, 47-103

The importance of wild and domestic plants within British Neolithic economies has been much disputed but the contribution of the Scottish archaeobotanical evidence to this issue has previously been understated. This paper assesses the use of plants i... Read More about Cereals, fruits and nuts in the Scottish Neolithic.

Pigs in the Faroe Islands: An ancient facet of the islands’ paleoeconomy (2009)
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Arge, S., Church, M., & Brewington, S. (2009). Pigs in the Faroe Islands: An ancient facet of the islands’ paleoeconomy. Journal of the North Atlantic, 2, 19-32

This paper discusses the evidence for pig husbandry in the Faroes during the Norse and early Medieval periods. The evidence from zooarchaeology, biomolecular archaeology and place-name evidence is reviewed, proposing that the keeping of pigs was an i... Read More about Pigs in the Faroe Islands: An ancient facet of the islands’ paleoeconomy.

Human impact on an island ecosystem: pollen data from Sandoy, Faroe Islands (2008)
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Lawson, I., Edwards, K., Church, M., Newton, A., Cook, G., Gathorne-Hardy, F., & Dugmore, A. (2008). Human impact on an island ecosystem: pollen data from Sandoy, Faroe Islands. Journal of Biogeography, 35(6), 1130-1152. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01838.x

Aim: To investigate the form and dynamics of ecosystems on an isolated island in the North Atlantic before human settlement in the first millennium ad, and the effects of human activities thereafter. Location: The island of Sandoy, Faroes (6150¢ N, 6... Read More about Human impact on an island ecosystem: pollen data from Sandoy, Faroe Islands.

The Chironomidae of Gróthúsvatn, Sandoy, Faroe Islands: climatic and lake phosphorus reconstructions, and the impact of human settlement (2007)
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Gathorne-Hardy, F., Lawson, I., Church, M., Brooks, S., Buckland, P., & Edwards, K. (2007). The Chironomidae of Gróthúsvatn, Sandoy, Faroe Islands: climatic and lake phosphorus reconstructions, and the impact of human settlement. Holocene, 17(8), 1259-1264. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683607085133

Chironomids were examined as part of a multiproxy palaeolimnological study of Gróthúsvatn, Sandoy, Faroe Islands. A total of 37 taxa was found in the top 1 m of the core. Chironomid-inferred total phosphorus and temperature reconstructions indicate t... Read More about The Chironomidae of Gróthúsvatn, Sandoy, Faroe Islands: climatic and lake phosphorus reconstructions, and the impact of human settlement.

Charcoal production during the Norse and early medieval periods in Eyjafjallahreppur, Southern Iceland (2007)
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Church, M., Dugmore, A., Mairs, K., Millard, A., Cook, G., Sveinbjarnardóttir, G., …Roucoux, K. (2007). Charcoal production during the Norse and early medieval periods in Eyjafjallahreppur, Southern Iceland. Radiocarbon, 49(2), 659-672

Timber procurement and the use of woodlands is a key issue in the Norse and Medieval period in the North Atlantic islands. This paper outlines evidence for the timing and mechanisms of Norse deforestation in an area of southern Iceland which is track... Read More about Charcoal production during the Norse and early medieval periods in Eyjafjallahreppur, Southern Iceland.

Reservoirs and radiocarbon: 14C dating problems in Mývatnssveit, northern Iceland (2007)
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Ascough, P., Cook, G., Church, M., Dugmore, A., McGovern, T., Dunbar, E., …Gestsdóttir, H. (2007). Reservoirs and radiocarbon: 14C dating problems in Mývatnssveit, northern Iceland. Radiocarbon, 49(2), 947-961

This paper examines two potential sources of the 14C offset between human and terrestrial mammal (horse) bones recovered from Norse (c.870-1000 AD) pagan graves in Mývatnssveit, North Iceland. These are the marine and freshwater 14C reservoir effects... Read More about Reservoirs and radiocarbon: 14C dating problems in Mývatnssveit, northern Iceland.

Sourcing fire ash on archaeological sites in the Western and Northern Isles of Scotland, using mineral magnetism (2007)
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Church, M., Peters, C., & Batt, C. (2007). Sourcing fire ash on archaeological sites in the Western and Northern Isles of Scotland, using mineral magnetism. Geoarchaeology, 22(7), 747-774. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.20185

The application of a new technique developed to identify different fuel sources from ash on nine archaeological sites in the Western and Northern Isles of Scotland is presented. The technique is based on variations observed in the mineral magnetic si... Read More about Sourcing fire ash on archaeological sites in the Western and Northern Isles of Scotland, using mineral magnetism.

Abandoned farms, volcanic impacts and woodland management: revisiting Þjórsárdalur, the ‘Pompeii of Iceland’ (2007)
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Dugmore, A., Church, M., Mairs, K., McGovern, T., Perdikaris, S., & Vésteinsson, O. (2007). Abandoned farms, volcanic impacts and woodland management: revisiting Þjórsárdalur, the ‘Pompeii of Iceland’. Arctic Anthropology, 44(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.3368/aa.44.1.1

Geomorphological maps and nine soil profiles containing 92 tephra layers have been examined to explore the nature of medieval environmental change in Þjórsárdalur, Iceland, where farms are thought to have been abandoned after the massive tephra fall... Read More about Abandoned farms, volcanic impacts and woodland management: revisiting Þjórsárdalur, the ‘Pompeii of Iceland’.

The role of climate in settlement and landscape change in the North Atlantic islands: an assessment of cumulative deviations in high-resolution proxy climate records (2007)
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Dugmore, A., Borthwick, D., Church, M., Dawson, A., Edwards, K., Keller, C., …Sveinbjarnardóttir, G. (2007). The role of climate in settlement and landscape change in the North Atlantic islands: an assessment of cumulative deviations in high-resolution proxy climate records. Human Ecology, 35(2), 169-178. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-006-9051-z

In order to assess possible contributions of climate change to the human ecology of the Faroe Islands, proxy climate data from the Greenland Icesheet Project 2 (GISP2) are evaluated in relation to settlement and landscape changes in the Faroes and ot... Read More about The role of climate in settlement and landscape change in the North Atlantic islands: an assessment of cumulative deviations in high-resolution proxy climate records.

Landscapes of settlement in northern Iceland: Historical Ecology of human impact and climate fluctuation on the millennial scale (2007)
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McGovern, T., Vésteinsson, O., Friðriksson, A., Church, M., Lawson, I., Simpson, I., …Dunbar, E. (2007). Landscapes of settlement in northern Iceland: Historical Ecology of human impact and climate fluctuation on the millennial scale. American Anthropologist, 109(1), 27-51. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.2007.109.1.27

A thousand years ago Viking age voyagers crossed the grey waters of the North Atlantic, colonizing the Faroes, Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland between AD 800 and 1000. However, early transatlantic migration was not to have the historical impact of th... Read More about Landscapes of settlement in northern Iceland: Historical Ecology of human impact and climate fluctuation on the millennial scale.

Peat initiation in the Faroe Islands : climate or people ? (2007)
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Lawson, I., Church, M., Edwards, K., Cook, G., & Dugmore, A. (2007). Peat initiation in the Faroe Islands : climate or people ?. Transactions. Earth sciences, 98(1), 15-28. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1755691007000035

As an isolated island group lying off the NW European mainland which was uninhabited until the mid-first millennium AD, the Faroes offer a unique opportunity to study natural processes of Holocene ecosystem development in a region where anthropogenic... Read More about Peat initiation in the Faroe Islands : climate or people ?.

Environmental impacts of the Norse settlement: palaeoenvironmental data from Mývatnssveit, northern Iceland (2007)
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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.

Variability in North Atlantic marine radiocarbon reservoir effects at c.1000 AD (2006)
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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.

Archaeological evidence for the first Mesolithic occupation of the Western Isles of Scotland (2005)
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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)
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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.