Climate, cod and crops: coastal land use in the SW Barents Sea region during the past 2.5 ka

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Author: Sjögren, Per
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2009
• Subjects: Paleontology; Earth-Surface Processes; Ecology; Archeology; Global and Planetary Change; Arctic; Barents Sea; Norway; Sørøya; Fennoscandia; North Norway; sami
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683609105294; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0959683609105294

The SW coast of the Barents Sea is a historical transition zone between the traditional agrarian cultures of western Europe and Sami hunter-gatherers of northern Fennoscandia. It is today north of the climatic limit of cereal cultivation and the economy is primarily based on fisheries. The pollen co...