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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.

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.

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.

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.