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http://hdl.handle.net/1893/19687| Appears in Collections: | Biological and Environmental Sciences Journal Articles |
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| Title: | The Vikings were not the first colonizers of the Faroe Islands |
| Author(s): | Church, Mike J Arge, Simun V Edwards, Kevin J Ascough, Philippa L Bond, Julie M Cook, Gordon Dockrill, Stephen J Dugmore, Andrew J McGovern, Thomas H Nesbitt, Claire Simpson, Ian |
| Contact Email: | i.a.simpson@stir.ac.uk |
| Keywords: | Faroe Islands Earliest human settlement 14C Dating |
| Issue Date: | Oct-2013 |
| Date Deposited: | 31-Mar-2014 |
| Citation: | Church MJ, Arge SV, Edwards KJ, Ascough PL, Bond JM, Cook G, Dockrill SJ, Dugmore AJ, McGovern TH, Nesbitt C & Simpson I (2013) The Vikings were not the first colonizers of the Faroe Islands. Quaternary Science Reviews, 77, pp. 228-232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.06.011 |
| Abstract: | We report on the earliest archaeological evidence from the Faroe Islands, placing human colonization in the 4th-6th 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 14C dates of two pre-Viking phases within the 4th-6th and late 6th-8th 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. |
| DOI Link: | 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.06.011 |
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