Pushing the limits: palynological investigations at the margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet in the Norse Western Settlement

• Published in: Environmental Archaeology
• Main Authors: Schofield, J. Edward, Pearce, Danni M., Mair, Douglas W.F., Rea, Brice R., Lea, James M., Kamenos, Nicholas A., Schoenrock, Kathryn M., Barr, Iestyn D., Edwards, Kevin J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor and Francis 2022
• Subjects: Arctic; Austmannadalen; Greenland; Ice Sheet; walrus*
• Online Access: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/201719/; http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/201719/7/201719.pdf

This paper presents two high-resolution pollen records dating to ∼AD 1000–1400 that reveal the impacts of Norse colonists on vegetation and landscape around a remote farmstead in the Western Settlement of Greenland. The study is centred upon a ‘centralised farm’ (ruin group V53d) in Austmannadalen,...