Publications

Church, M., Dugmore, A.J., Mairs, K.A., Millard, A.R., Cook, G.T., Sveinbjarnardóttir, G., Ascough, P.A. and Roucoux, K.H. (In press). Charcoal production during the Norse and early medieval periods in Eyjafjallahreppur, southern Iceland. Radiocarbon

Dugmore, A.J., Church, M.J., Mairs K.A. McGovern, T.H., Perdikaris, S. and Vésteinsson, O. (2007). Abandoned farms, volcanic impacts and woodland management: Revisiting Þjórsárdalur, the 'Pompeii of Iceland'. Arctic Anthropology 44 (1): 1-11

Dugmore, A.J., Borthwick, D.M., Buckland, P.C. Church, M., Dawson, A, Edwards, K.J., Keller, C., Mayewski, P., McGovern, T.H., Mairs, K.A., and Sveinbjarnardóttir, G. (2007). The role of climate in settlement and landscape change in the North Atlantic islands: an assessment of cumulative deviations in high resolution proxy climate records. Human Ecology.

Mairs, K.A., Church, M.J., Dugmore, A.J. and Sveinbjarnardóttir, G. (2006) Degrees of succcess: evaluating the environmental impacts of successful long term settlement in south Iceland.' In Arneborg, J. and Grønnow, B. (eds.), The Dynamics of Northern Societies. PNM, Publications from the National Museum, Studies in Archaeology and History, Volume 10. Copenhagen 2006: 363-372.

Dugmore, A.J., Church, M.J., Mairs, K.A., McGovern, T.H., Newton, A.J. and Sveinbjarnardóttir, G. (2006) An over-optimistic pioneer fringe? Environmental perspectives on medieval settlement abandonment in Thorsmork, south Iceland. In Arneborg, J. and Grønnow, B. (eds.), The Dynamics of Northern Societies. PNM, Publications from the National Museum, Studies in Archaeology and History, Volume 10. Copenhagen 2006: 333-344.

Sveinbjarnardóttir, G., Mairs, K.A., Church, M.J. and Dugmore, A.J. (2006) Settlement history, land holdings and landscape change, Eyjafjallahreppur, Iceland. In Arneborg, J. and Grønnow, B. (eds.), The Dynamics of Northern Societies. PNM, Publications from the National Museum, Studies in Archaeology and History, Volume 10. Copenhagen 2006: 321-331.

Lawson, I.T., Edwards, K.J., Erlendsson E., Vésteinsson, O., Dugmore, A.J., Mairs, K.A., Church, M.J., Simpson, I., Adderly, P. McGovern, T. (2006) Betula pubescens and the settlement of Iceland. In Arneborg, J. and Grønnow, B. (eds.), The Dynamics of Northern Societies. PNM, Publications from the National Museum, Studies in Archaeology and History, Volume 10. Copenhagen 2006: 321-331.

Lawson, I.T., Church, M.J., McGovern, T.H., Arge, S.V., Edwards, K.J., Gathorne-Hardy, F.J., Dugmore, A.J., Mairs, K.A., Thompson, A.M., Woollet, J., Sveinbjarnardóttir, G. (2005). Historical Ecology on Sandoy, Faroe Islands: Palaeoenvironmental and Archaeological Perspectives. Human Ecology:33 (5) 651-684

Edwards, K.J., Borthwick, D., Cook, G., Dugmore, A., Mairs, K.A., Church, M., Simpson, I. and Adderley, P. (2005). A hypothesis based approach to landscape change in Suðuroy, Faroe Islands. Human Ecology:33 (5) 621-650

Conference contributions

Mairs, K.A. and Dugmore, A.J. Long term landscape change and human impact in southern Iceland. Lecture to Lorn Archaeological and Historical Society, Oban, November 2007

Mairs, K.A. and Dugmore, A.J. Are human impacts on island environments always bad? Seminar given at the Scottish Association for Marine Science, Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, Oban, March 2007

Mairs, K.A. and Dugmore, A.J. Threshold crossing events: Why do socio-environmental crises develop… or not? The View from Here: History and Ecology of the North Atlantic Region. North Atlantic Biocultural Organisation Conference, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada, September 2006.

Dugmore, A.J. and Mairs, K.A. The impact of the unpredictable? Cumulative climate change, ‘memories’ and anthropogenic landscape change. The View from Here: History and Ecology of the North Atlantic Region. North Atlantic Biocultural Organisation Conference, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada, September 2006.

Mairs, K.A., Dugmore, A.J., Church, M.J. and Sveinbjarnardóttir, G. Environmental perspectives on long-term settlement and abandonment in south Iceland. AEA Spring Conference, Winchester 2005.

Mairs, K.A., Church, M.J,. Dugmore, A.J. and Sveinbjarnardóttir, G. Degrees of success: evaluating the environmental impacts of long-term settlement in south Iceland. NABO-SILA International conference "Dynamics of Northern Societies", Copenhagen, 2004.

Sveinbjarnardóttir, G., Mairs, K.A., Church, M.J. and Dugmore, A.J. Settlement history, land holdings and landscape change, Eyjafjallahreppur, Iceland. NABO-SILA International conference "Dynamics of Northern Societies", Copenhagen, 2004.

Dugmore, A.J., Church, M.J., Mairs, K.A., McGovern, T.H., Newton, A.J. and Sveinbjarnardóttir, G. An over-optimistic pioneer fringe? Environmental perspectives on medieval settlement abandonment in Thorsmork, south Iceland. NABO-SILA International conference "Dynamics of Northern Societies", Copenhagen, 2004.

Mairs, K. A., Church, M. J. and Dugmore, A. J. The Norse Atlantic Saga: Environmental change and cultural change: causation, coincidence or claptrap? The Hutton Club seminar and Northern Studies Conference, University of Edinburgh 2004.

Mairs, K. A. Human impacts on the geomorphic history of the Faroe Islands. Geosciences Gradschool Conference 2004. Award for best first year presentation.

Mairs, K. A. Farm abandonment in medieval Iceland: an evaluation of human-environment interactions. Geosciences Gradschool Conference, 2003.

Mairs, K. A. Geomorphology of Hov, Faroe islands. Landscapes-circum-Landnam International Workshop, 2003.

Mairs, K. A. Settlement patterns, geomorphology and tephrochronology, Eyjafjallahreppur, south Iceland. Landscapes-circum-Landnam, 2003.

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