Perspective of landscape change following early settlement (landnám) in Svalbarðstunga, northeastern Iceland

• Published in: Boreas
• Main Authors: Roy, Natasha, Woollett, James, Bhiry, Najat, Haemmerli, Guillaume, Forbes, Véronique, Pienitz, Reinhard
• Other Authors: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Nature et Technologies
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2017
• Subjects: Greenland; Hjálmarvík; Kúðá; Svalbarðstunga; East Greenland; east greenland current; Iceland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bor.12287; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fbor.12287; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/bor.12287

A series of peat monoliths was collected from Hjálmarvík, Kúðá and Bægístaðir, three abandoned farm sites located on a transect extending from the coast to 18 km inland in the Svalbarðstunga region (northeastern Iceland) in order to document the impact of human occupation and patterns of land use on...