Taphonomy or signal sensitivity in palaeoecological investigations of Norselandnámin Vatnahverfi, southern Greenland?

• Published in: Boreas
• Main Authors: Ledger, Paul M., Edwards, Kevin J., Schofield, J. Edward
• Other Authors: Leverhulme Trust
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2014
• Subjects: Greenland; Vatnahverfi
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bor.12089; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fbor.12089; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/bor.12089

Anthrosols (cf. plaggen soils) are commonly found across the homefields of Norse farms, yet the extent to which these taphonomically complex and heterogeneous deposits provide reliable archives of environmental change and vegetation history has rarely been investigated. This paper compares the palyn...