The Norse landnám on the North Atlantic islands: an environmental impact assessment

Dugmore, AJ; Church, MJ; Buckland, PC; Edwards, KJ; Lawson, IT; McGovern, TH; Panagiotakopulu, E; Simpson, IA; Skidmore, P; Sveinbjarnardóttir, G

doi:10.1017/s0032247404003985

All Outputs (8)

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.

Historical ecology on Sandoy, Faroe Islands: palaeoenvironmental and archaeological perspectives (2005)
Journal Article
Lawson, I., Church, M., McGovern, T., Arge, S., Woollet, J., Edwards, K., …Sveinbjarnardóttir, G. (2005). Historical ecology on Sandoy, Faroe Islands: palaeoenvironmental and archaeological perspectives. Human Ecology, 33(5), 651-684. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-005-7681-1

We present palaeoenvironmental, geomorphological, archaeological, and place-name data which allow a holistic assessment of the history of landscape change on Sandoy, Faroe Islands, especially in terms of the changes that occurred in response to the c... Read More about Historical ecology on Sandoy, Faroe Islands: palaeoenvironmental and archaeological perspectives.

Carbonized plant macrofossils, in Neighbour, T. Excavation of a Bronze Age kerb cairn at Olcote, Breasclete, near Calanais, Isle of Lewis (2005)
Journal Article
Church, M. (2005). Carbonized plant macrofossils, in Neighbour, T. Excavation of a Bronze Age kerb cairn at Olcote, Breasclete, near Calanais, Isle of Lewis. Scottish archaeological internet reports, 13, 51-52

A hypothesis-based approach to landscape change in Suðoroy, Faroe Islands (2005)
Journal Article
Edwards, K., Borthwick, D., Cook, G., Dugmore, A., Mairs, K., Church, M., …Adderley, W. (2005). A hypothesis-based approach to landscape change in Suðoroy, Faroe Islands. Human Ecology, 33(5), 621-650. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-005-4746-0

Hovsdalur, an area delimited by the great cirques of upland central Su uroy, draining into the valley of the Hovs´a and terminating in the east at the coastal amphitheatre of Hovsfjørdur, is a microcosm of the Faroes. The area contains the physical a... Read More about A hypothesis-based approach to landscape change in Suðoroy, Faroe Islands.

Towards an economic landscape of the Bhaltos Peninsula, Lewis during the Mid to Late Iron Age (2005)
Book Chapter
Ceron-Carrasco, R., Church, M., & Thoms, J. (2005). Towards an economic landscape of the Bhaltos Peninsula, Lewis during the Mid to Late Iron Age. In V. Turner, R. Nicholson, S. Dockrill, & J. Bond (Eds.), Tall stories ? 2 millennia of brochs (221-234). Shetland Amenity Trust

Palaeoenvironmental sampling of the souterrain, in Alexander, D. Redcastle, Lunan Bay, Angus: the excavation of of an Iron Age timber-lined souterrain and a Pictish barrow cemetery (2005)
Journal Article
Church, M. (2005). Palaeoenvironmental sampling of the souterrain, in Alexander, D. Redcastle, Lunan Bay, Angus: the excavation of of an Iron Age timber-lined souterrain and a Pictish barrow cemetery. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 135, 53-74

The Norse landnám on the North Atlantic islands: an environmental impact assessment (2005)
Journal Article
Dugmore, A., Church, M., Buckland, P., Edwards, K., Lawson, I., McGovern, T., …Sveinbjarnardóttir, G. (2005). The Norse landnám on the North Atlantic islands: an environmental impact assessment. Polar Record, 41(1), 21-37. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247404003985

The Norse colonisation or landnám of the North Atlantic islands of the Faroes, Iceland and Greenland, from the ninth century AD onwards, provides opportunities to examine human environmental impacts on ‘pristine’ landscapes of an environmental gradie... Read More about The Norse landnám on the North Atlantic islands: an environmental impact assessment.