Settlement and Abandonment (Other Keyword)
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Ecohistories of Settlement of the Community of Svalbarð, Northeast Iceland (2017)
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The Archaeology of Settlement and Abandonment of Svalbarð research program has reconstructed chronologies of settlement movements on the Svalbarð estate (extreme north-east Iceland), from the 9th to the 19th century AD, as well as their environmental and socio-economic contexts. Settlement expansions occurred in the 10th to 13th and the 18th to 19th centuries AD, interspersed with waves of widespread abandonment after ca. 1300 and 1800. Analyses of amended soils and of soil and air temperature...