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

Authors

Thomas H. McGovern, Hunter College of the CUNY
Orri Vesteinsson, University of Iceland
Adolf Fridriksson, University of Iceland
Mike Church, University of Edinburgh
Ian Lawson, University of Leeds
Ian A. Simpson, University of Stirling
Arni Einarsson, University of Iceland
Andy Dugmore, University of Edinburgh
Gordon Cook, Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre
Sophia Perdikaris, Brooklyn CollegeFollow

Date of this Version

3-2007

Citation

American Anthropologist • Vol. 109, No. 1 • March 2007 Page: 27-51

Comments

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Vol. 109, Issue 1, pp. 27–51, ISSN 0002-7294 online ISSN 1548-1433. C 2007 by the American Anthropological Association. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press’s Rights and Permissions website, http://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintInfo.asp. DOI: 10.1525/AA.2007.109.1.27.

Abstract

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 M´yvatn 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.