Tephrochronology, landscape and population: impacts of plague on medieval Iceland

• Main Author: Streeter, Richard Thomas
• Other Authors: Dugmore, Andrew, Mackaness, William, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), US National Science Foundation
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Edinburgh 2012
• Subjects: tephrochronology; plague; soil erosion; Arctic; Skaftártunga; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/6181

This thesis examines the extent to which geomorphological change in sub-arctic landscapes may be driven by rapid declines in population over timescales of decades to centuries. Demographic decline driven by disease in pastoral agricultural systems is expected to alter patterns of land use. Using a c...