Islands of change vs. islands of disaster : Managing pigs and birds in the Anthropocene of the North Atlantic
The offshore islands of the North Atlantic were among some of the last settled places on earth, with humans reaching the Faroes and Iceland in the late Iron Age and Viking period. While older accounts emphasizing deforestation and soil erosion have presented this story of island colonization as yet...
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ftmittuniv:oai:DiVA.org:miun-26198 2023-05-15T16:11:14+02:00 Islands of change vs. islands of disaster : Managing pigs and birds in the Anthropocene of the North Atlantic Brewington, Seth Hicks, Megan Edwald, Ágústa Einarsson, Árni Anamthawat-Jónsson, Kesara Cook, Gordon Ascough, Philippa Sayle, Kerry L Arge, Símun V Church, Mike Bond, Julie Dockrill, Steve Friðriksson, Adolf Hambrecht, George Juliusson, Arni Daniel Hreinsson, Vidar Hartman, Steven Smiarowski, Konrad Harrison, Ramona McGovern, Thomas H 2015 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-26198 https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615591714 eng eng Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för humaniora Anthropology Program, CUNY Graduate Center, United States Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom Mývatn Research Station, Iceland Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Iceland, Iceland Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC), United Kingdom Søvn Landsins – Faroese National Heritage, Faroe Islands Department of Archaeology, Durham University, United Kingdom Department of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford, United Kingdom Archaeological Institute of Iceland, Iceland Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland, United States Reykjavík Academy, Iceland The Holocene, 0959-6836, 2015, 25:10, s. 1676-1684 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-26198 doi:10.1177/0959683615591714 ISI:000361495300015 Scopus 2-s2.0-84941882930 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Anthropocene IHOPE island archaeology local and traditional knowledge Norse North Atlantic General Literature Studies Litteraturvetenskap History and Archaeology Historia och arkeologi Earth and Related Environmental Sciences Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap Article in journal info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2015 ftmittuniv https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615591714 2023-04-07T06:08:09Z The offshore islands of the North Atlantic were among some of the last settled places on earth, with humans reaching the Faroes and Iceland in the late Iron Age and Viking period. While older accounts emphasizing deforestation and soil erosion have presented this story of island colonization as yet another social–ecological disaster, recent archaeological and paleoenvironmental research combined with environmental history, environmental humanities, and bioscience is providing a more complex understanding of long-term human ecodynamics in these northern islands. An ongoing interdisciplinary investigation of the management of domestic pigs and wild bird populations in Faroes and Iceland is presented as an example of sustained resource management using local and traditional knowledge to create structures for successful wild fowl management on the millennial scale. IHOPE Article in Journal/Newspaper Faroes Iceland North Atlantic Mid Sweden University: Publications (DiVA) The Holocene 25 10 1676 1684 |
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Anthropocene IHOPE island archaeology local and traditional knowledge Norse North Atlantic General Literature Studies Litteraturvetenskap History and Archaeology Historia och arkeologi Earth and Related Environmental Sciences Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap Brewington, Seth Hicks, Megan Edwald, Ágústa Einarsson, Árni Anamthawat-Jónsson, Kesara Cook, Gordon Ascough, Philippa Sayle, Kerry L Arge, Símun V Church, Mike Bond, Julie Dockrill, Steve Friðriksson, Adolf Hambrecht, George Juliusson, Arni Daniel Hreinsson, Vidar Hartman, Steven Smiarowski, Konrad Harrison, Ramona McGovern, Thomas H Islands of change vs. islands of disaster : Managing pigs and birds in the Anthropocene of the North Atlantic |
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The offshore islands of the North Atlantic were among some of the last settled places on earth, with humans reaching the Faroes and Iceland in the late Iron Age and Viking period. While older accounts emphasizing deforestation and soil erosion have presented this story of island colonization as yet another social–ecological disaster, recent archaeological and paleoenvironmental research combined with environmental history, environmental humanities, and bioscience is providing a more complex understanding of long-term human ecodynamics in these northern islands. An ongoing interdisciplinary investigation of the management of domestic pigs and wild bird populations in Faroes and Iceland is presented as an example of sustained resource management using local and traditional knowledge to create structures for successful wild fowl management on the millennial scale. IHOPE |
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Brewington, Seth Hicks, Megan Edwald, Ágústa Einarsson, Árni Anamthawat-Jónsson, Kesara Cook, Gordon Ascough, Philippa Sayle, Kerry L Arge, Símun V Church, Mike Bond, Julie Dockrill, Steve Friðriksson, Adolf Hambrecht, George Juliusson, Arni Daniel Hreinsson, Vidar Hartman, Steven Smiarowski, Konrad Harrison, Ramona McGovern, Thomas H |
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Brewington, Seth Hicks, Megan Edwald, Ágústa Einarsson, Árni Anamthawat-Jónsson, Kesara Cook, Gordon Ascough, Philippa Sayle, Kerry L Arge, Símun V Church, Mike Bond, Julie Dockrill, Steve Friðriksson, Adolf Hambrecht, George Juliusson, Arni Daniel Hreinsson, Vidar Hartman, Steven Smiarowski, Konrad Harrison, Ramona McGovern, Thomas H |
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Islands of change vs. islands of disaster : Managing pigs and birds in the Anthropocene of the North Atlantic |
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Islands of change vs. islands of disaster : Managing pigs and birds in the Anthropocene of the North Atlantic |
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Islands of change vs. islands of disaster : Managing pigs and birds in the Anthropocene of the North Atlantic |
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Islands of change vs. islands of disaster : Managing pigs and birds in the Anthropocene of the North Atlantic |
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Islands of change vs. islands of disaster : Managing pigs and birds in the Anthropocene of the North Atlantic |
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