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., Vesteinsson, Orri, Fridriksson, Adolf, Church, Mike, Lawson, Ian, Simpson, Ian A., Einarsson, Arni, Dugmore, Andy, Cook, Gordon, Perdikaris, Sophia, Edwards, Kevin J., Thomson, Amanda M., Adderley, W. Paul, Newton, Anthony, Lucas, Gavin, Edvardsson, Ragnar, Aldred, Oscar, Dunbar, Elaine
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Iceland; sustainability; historical ecology; paleoecology; LAND DEGRADATION; PREMODERN ICELAND; NORSE GREENLAND; ATLANTIC; HOLOCENE; ZOOARCHAEOLOGY; PERSPECTIVE; ISLANDS; MYVATN; DIET; Greenland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/researchoutput/landscapes-of-settlement-in-northern-iceland-historical-ecology-of-human-impact-and-climate-fluctuation-on-the-millennial-scale(08dc5687-3fa1-4a43-8d6e-46cde77486cf).html; https://doi.org/10.1525/AA.2007.109.1.27

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