Historical ecology on Sandoy, Faroe Islands : palaeoenvironmental and archaeological perspectives

• Published in: Human Ecology
• Main Authors: Lawson, I. T., Church, M. J., McGovern, T. H., Arge, S. V., Woollet, J., Edwards, K. J., Gathorne-Hardy, F. J., Dugmore, A. J., Cook, G., Mairs, K.-A., Thomson, A. M., Sveinbjarnardóttir, G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 2005
• Subjects: Norse; Human adaptation; Palaeoecology; Archaeology; Landnam; Faroe Islands; Sandoy; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dro.dur.ac.uk/4350/; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-005-7681-1

We present palaeoenvironmental, geomorphological, archaeological, and place-name data which allow a holistic assessment of the history of landscape change on Sandoy, Faroe Islands, especially in terms of the changes that occurred in response to the colonization of the island by humans. In contrast t...