Tephrochronology

Environmental controls on tephra layer morphology

Magdalena M. E. Schmid (2018) Archaeological Applications of Radiocarbon Chronologies and Statistical Models: Dating the Viking Age Settlement of Iceland (Landnám). University of Iceland, PhD thesis. 171 pp.

Rebecca Barclay (2016) Formation, cultural use and management of Icelandic wet meadows – a palaeoenvironmental interpretation. University of Stirling, Unpublished PhD thesis. 251 pp.

Richard Streeter (2012) Tephrochronology, landscape and population: impacts of plague on medieval Iceland. The University of Edinburgh, Unpublished PhD Thesis. 244 pp.

Kerry-Anne Mairs (2007) Islands and human impact: Under what circumstances do people put unsustainable demands on island environments? Evidence from the North Atlantic. University of Edinburgh, Unpublished PhD Thesis. 398 pp.

Anthony Newton (1999) Ocean-transported pumice in the North Atlantic. University of Edinburgh, Unpublished PhD thesis. 414 pp.

The Siglunes site encompasses a Settlement Era (ca. AD 871) farm mound located on mainland and a series of eroding fishing structures found along the southern and western coasts of the peninsula protruding to the west from the mainland area. The site may have been occupied continuously through the post-medieval period and the last permanent ...

Skuggi is located in Hörgárdalur, ca. 20 km southwest of the medieval trading site Gásir in Eyjafjörður, N Iceland (figure 1). The site lies south of the river Hörgá that names the entire valley system and whose waters traverse the Hörgá Valley, or Hörgárdalur, to eventually drain into Eyjafjörður just slightly north of Gásir. Positioned ...

Reconstructing historic landscapes responses to a range of factors contributed by natural processes and anthropogenic activities is an important part of understanding why natural systems fluctuate between stable and unstable conditions. In doing so new understanding of landscape resilience in a dynamic environment can emerge and ultimately lead to new ideas for sustainable management. To understand ...

In June-July 2008 an international team (led by Ágústa Edwald FSÍ and Tom McGovern CUNY) conducted initial investigations of stratified midden deposits associated with the historic site of Skútustaðir in Mývatn in NE Iceland. The project is part of a larger NABO (North Atlantic Biocultural Organization) and IPY (International Polar Year) program Human Ecodynamics in ...

Hrísheimar is located in the bend of a gravel ridge formed by a glacial esker deposit (figure 1) (elevation 310 m, 40 24 53 E, 72 67 706 N). The farm area is relatively sheltered by the ridgeline from winds from the N and NE, but is exposed to wind and aeolian erosion from the ...

In 2001 the FSl / NABO project Landscapes of Settlement in Northern Iceland collected animal bones from a stratified midden deposit associated with the abandoned site Selhagi on the property of the modern farm Haganes. Selhagi is located in the lushly vegetated lakeshore zone and its environmental setting presents a strong contrast with the eroded ...

During the 2002 field season of the Landscapes of Settlement Project (directed by Fornleifastofnun ĺslands with collaboration by the NABO cooperative) a team (Tom McGovern and Christian Keller) visited Oddastaðir August 9th 2002 with the objective of localizing possible midden deposits around the several groups of ruins contained within the surviving home field wall. McGovern ...

During the 2002 field season of the Landscapes of Settlement Project (directed by Fornleifastofnun ĺslands with collaboration by the NABO cooperative) the CUNY team was tasked to locate midden deposits surviving around the medieval to early modern farm mound on the southern side of the home field and assess their prospects for further excavation. Two ...

Tephrabase was originally designed to be used by those involved in tephrochronological research in north-west Europe. In practice, this means those working in the British Isles, Scandinavia and Iceland (the source of the tephra layers). The aims of this project have not changed since Tephrabase was first unveiled in 1995, except that details about tephra ...