Puffins, Pigs, Cod and Barley: Palaeoeconomy at Undir Junkarinsfløtti, Sandoy, Faroe Islands

Church, Mike J.; Arge, Símun V.; Brewington, Seth; McGovern, Thomas H.; Woollett, Jim M.; Perdikaris, Sophia; Lawson, Ian T.; Cook, Gordon; Amundsen, Colin; Harrison, Ramona; Krivogorskaya, Yekaterina; Dunbar, Elaine

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“…800-1000 cal AD ;Small 1964:264) shares several similarities with Hebridean blackhouses, including the plan of the structure, the construction materials, the paved floor, and the central hearth. Similar structures also exist from the Norse period across the wider North Atlantic, in the Faroes (Arge 1991, Church et al 2005, Iceland (Smith 1995, Vésteinsson 2004, and Greenland (Høegsberg 2010). Examples of similar Norse-period structures in the Western Isles can be seen at Bornais, South Uist, where mound 2 was excavated to reveal a rectangular Norse building, which post-dated an 11 th -century bow-walled hall (Sharples 2012).…”

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“…This ash had presumably spread from the central domestic hearth, either being deliberately laid down as part of a beaten floor level or trampled over time across the domestic space, a phenomenon noted in other blackhouse excavations (Smith 1996) and 19 th /20 th -century ethnography (Fenton 1978). The archaeobotanical remains would have been carbonized in the hearth, the principal taphonomic model for carbonized plant macrofossil preservation in North Atlantic archaeology Church et al 2005Church et al , 2007.…”

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Small-Scale Evaluation of a Post-Medieval Blackhouse at Bereiro, Lewis, Western Isles of Scotland

Nesbitt

Church

Gilmour

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Journal of the North Atlantic

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Abstract -This paper presents the results of the excavation of two dry-stone structures in the abandoned blackhouse village of Bereiro, near to the township of Crowlista, Isle of Lewis. The research was undertaken as part of a wider landscape project investigating human occupation on the Uig peninsula from prehistory to the post-medieval period (the Uig Landscape Project). The excavation aimed to collect dating evidence from the site to determine the date of construction and abandonment of one of the earliest structures in the village, in an attempt to establish the longevity of the blackhouse form in the vernacular architecture of medieval Atlantic Scotland. The results of the dating program are considered alongside historical documents, which record the social history of the village within the context of the long-standing research questions regarding blackhouse villages. These questions include the development of the agricultural field systems and continuity or change in the Hebridean landscape from later-prehistory to medieval times.

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Small-Scale Evaluation of a Post-Medieval Blackhouse at Bereiro, Lewis, Western Isles of Scotland

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“…Single carbonized barley grains (Hordeum sp. hulled) were chosen for AMS 14 C dating from key contexts, following established dating protocols for North Atlantic archaeology (Ashmore, 1999;Church et al, 2005;Ascough et al, 2009). The 14 C dates were processed by the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre following detailed methodology outlined in Ascough et al (2009), with calibration performed using OxCal 4.1 (Bronk Ramsay, 2009) and IntCal 09 (Reimer et al, 2009).…”

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The Vikings were not the first colonizers of the Faroe Islands

Church

Arge

Edwards

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Quaternary Science Reviews

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. (2013) 'The Vikings were not the rst colonizers of the Faroe Islands.', Quaternary science reviews., 77 . pp. 228-232. Further information on publisher's website:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.06.011Publisher's copyright statement: NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Quaternary science reviews. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be re ected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A de nitive version was subsequently published in Quaternary science reviews, 77, 1 October 2014, 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.06.011. Additional information:Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. AbstractWe report on the earliest archaeological evidence from the Faroe Islands, placing human colonization in the 4 th -6 th centuries AD, at least 300-500 years earlier than previously demonstrated archaeologically. The evidence consists of an extensive wind-blown sand deposit containing patches of burnt peat ash of anthropogenic origin. Samples of carbonised barley grains from two of these ash patches produced 14 C dates of two pre-Viking phases within the 4 th -6 th and late 6 th -8 th centuries AD. A re-evaluation is required of the nature, scale and timing of the human colonization of the Faroes and the wider North Atlantic region.

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“…However, one expect would such impacts to occur earlier in the settlement process-by around 1250 AD the Norse had been hunting in this part of Greenland for about nine human generations. Our understanding of Norse natural resource management capabilities has been expanded by work in Iceland and the Faroes, where there is growing evidence for successful community-level management of seabirds, waterfowl, freshwater fishing, and common grazing (Church et al 2005, McGovern et al 2006, Simpson et al 2002, 2004 overtake management strategies on the local scale. A broadening of the data set to include more sites in both settlement areas may be helpful in assessing the two hypotheses ( Figure 8).…”

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Human Diet and Subsistence Patterns in Norse Greenland AD C.980—AD c. 1450: Archaeological interpretations

Arneborg

Lynnerup

Heinemeier

2012

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Puffins, Pigs, Cod and Barley: Palaeoeconomy at Undir Junkarinsfløtti, Sandoy, Faroe Islands

Cited by 42 publications

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Small-Scale Evaluation of a Post-Medieval Blackhouse at Bereiro, Lewis, Western Isles of Scotland

Small-Scale Evaluation of a Post-Medieval Blackhouse at Bereiro, Lewis, Western Isles of Scotland

The Vikings were not the first colonizers of the Faroe Islands

Human Diet and Subsistence Patterns in Norse Greenland AD C.980—AD c. 1450: Archaeological interpretations

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