The Palaeoenvironment of Myvatnssveit During the Viking Age and Early Medieval Period
Until recently very little was known about the history of environmental change in Mývatnssveit, although many other parts of Iceland have been investigated in some detail since the pioneering work of Sigurður Þórarinsson in the 1940s (e.g. Þórarinsson 1944) and Þorleifur Einarsson in the 1950s (e.g....
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ftunivstirling:oai:dspace.stir.ac.uk:1893/2343 2023-05-15T16:44:14+02:00 The Palaeoenvironment of Myvatnssveit During the Viking Age and Early Medieval Period Lawson, Ian Milek, Karen Adderley, W Paul Casely, Andrew F Church, Mike J Duarte, Luisa Dugmore, Andrew J Edwards, Kevin J Gathorne-Hardy, Frederick J Gudmundsson, Gardar Morrison, Stuart Newton, Anthony Simpson, Ian Lucas, Gavin University of Leeds University of Aberdeen Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Edinburgh University College London Bournemouth University Institute of Archaeology, Iceland University of Stirling orcid:0000-0001-5552-1696 orcid:0000-0003-2447-7877 2009 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2343 http://www.instarch.is/instarch/english/publication/monograph_series/hofstadir/ http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/2343/1/Hof_volume_Chapter2.pdf en eng Institute of Archaeology, Iceland Iceland Lawson I, Milek K, Adderley WP, Casely AF, Church MJ, Duarte L, Dugmore AJ, Edwards KJ, Gathorne-Hardy FJ, Gudmundsson G, Morrison S, Newton A & Simpson I (2009) The Palaeoenvironment of Myvatnssveit During the Viking Age and Early Medieval Period. In: Lucas G (ed.) Hofstadir - Excavations of a Viking Age Feasting Hall in North-Eastern Iceland. Institute of Archaeology Monograph Series, 1, 1. Iceland: Institute of Archaeology, Iceland, pp. 26-54. http://www.instarch.is/instarch/english/publication/monograph_series/hofstadir/ Institute of Archaeology Monograph Series, 1, 1 http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2343 http://www.instarch.is/instarch/english/publication/monograph_series/hofstadir/ 835325 http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/2343/1/Hof_volume_Chapter2.pdf The editor has granted permission for use of this book chapter in this Repository. The chapter was first published in Hofstadir - Excavations of a Viking Age Feasting Hall in North-Eastern Iceland, Institute of Archaeology Monograph Series, 1 by the Institute of Archaeology, Iceland. Iceland Environment Soils Climate Soil micromorphology Environmental geochemistry Part of book or chapter of book VoR - Version of Record 2009 ftunivstirling 2022-06-13T18:46:13Z Until recently very little was known about the history of environmental change in Mývatnssveit, although many other parts of Iceland have been investigated in some detail since the pioneering work of Sigurður Þórarinsson in the 1940s (e.g. Þórarinsson 1944) and Þorleifur Einarsson in the 1950s (e.g. Einarsson 1957,1963). Notable multi-disciplinary research at the landscape scale, associated with archaeological excavation, has taken place and is still continuing in Reykholtsdalur in western Iceland (Buckland et al. 1992; Smith 1995; Dixon 1997) and in Eyjafjallahreppur in southern Iceland (e.g. Buckland et al. 1991; Dugmore and Buckland 1991; Mairs et al. 2006). A similar body of palaeoenvironmental evidence is now beginning to accumulate both from the site of Hofstaðir itself and from the surrounding landscape,capable of illuminating the nature of the Viking Age and early medieval site and placing it within a context of a complex and dynamic landscape. Book Part Iceland University of Stirling: Stirling Digital Research Repository Hofstaðir ENVELOPE(-21.917,-21.917,64.083,64.083) |
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Until recently very little was known about the history of environmental change in Mývatnssveit, although many other parts of Iceland have been investigated in some detail since the pioneering work of Sigurður Þórarinsson in the 1940s (e.g. Þórarinsson 1944) and Þorleifur Einarsson in the 1950s (e.g. Einarsson 1957,1963). Notable multi-disciplinary research at the landscape scale, associated with archaeological excavation, has taken place and is still continuing in Reykholtsdalur in western Iceland (Buckland et al. 1992; Smith 1995; Dixon 1997) and in Eyjafjallahreppur in southern Iceland (e.g. Buckland et al. 1991; Dugmore and Buckland 1991; Mairs et al. 2006). A similar body of palaeoenvironmental evidence is now beginning to accumulate both from the site of Hofstaðir itself and from the surrounding landscape,capable of illuminating the nature of the Viking Age and early medieval site and placing it within a context of a complex and dynamic landscape. |
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Lucas, Gavin University of Leeds University of Aberdeen Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Edinburgh University College London Bournemouth University Institute of Archaeology, Iceland University of Stirling orcid:0000-0001-5552-1696 orcid:0000-0003-2447-7877 |
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The Palaeoenvironment of Myvatnssveit During the Viking Age and Early Medieval Period |
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Lawson I, Milek K, Adderley WP, Casely AF, Church MJ, Duarte L, Dugmore AJ, Edwards KJ, Gathorne-Hardy FJ, Gudmundsson G, Morrison S, Newton A & Simpson I (2009) The Palaeoenvironment of Myvatnssveit During the Viking Age and Early Medieval Period. In: Lucas G (ed.) Hofstadir - Excavations of a Viking Age Feasting Hall in North-Eastern Iceland. Institute of Archaeology Monograph Series, 1, 1. Iceland: Institute of Archaeology, Iceland, pp. 26-54. http://www.instarch.is/instarch/english/publication/monograph_series/hofstadir/ Institute of Archaeology Monograph Series, 1, 1 http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2343 http://www.instarch.is/instarch/english/publication/monograph_series/hofstadir/ 835325 http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/2343/1/Hof_volume_Chapter2.pdf |
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The editor has granted permission for use of this book chapter in this Repository. The chapter was first published in Hofstadir - Excavations of a Viking Age Feasting Hall in North-Eastern Iceland, Institute of Archaeology Monograph Series, 1 by the Institute of Archaeology, Iceland. |
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