Landscapes of Settlement in Northern Iceland: Historical Ecology of Human Impact and Climate Fluctuation on the Millennial Scale

• Published in: American Anthropologist
• Main Authors: McGovern, Thomas H, Vésteinsson, Orri, Friđriksson, Adolf, Church, Mike J, Lawson, Ian, Simpson, Ian, Einarsson, Arni, Dugmore, Andrew J, Cook, Gordon, Perdikaris, Sophia, Edwards, Kevin J, Thomson, Amanda M, Adderley, W Paul, Newton, Anthony, Lucas, Gavin, Edvardsson, Ragnar, Aldred, Oscar, Dunbar, Elaine
• Other Authors: City University of New York, Institute of Archaeology, Iceland, University of Edinburgh, University of Leeds, Biological and Environmental Sciences, Mývatn Research Station, SUERC Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, University of Aberdeen, University of Stirling, Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, orcid:0000-0003-2447-7877, orcid:0000-0001-5552-1696
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Anthropological Association 2007
• Subjects: Iceland; sustainability; historical ecology; paleoecology; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1893/582; https://doi.org/10.1525/AA.2007.109.1.27; http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/582/1/american-anthropologist-northern-iceland.pdf

Early settlement in the North Atlantic produced complex interactions of culture and nature. A sustained program of interdisciplinary collaboration focused on ninth- to 13th-century sites and landscapes in the highland interior lake basin of Myvatn in Iceland and to contribute a long-term perspective to larger issues of sustainable resource use, soil erosion, and the historical ecology of global change.