Professor Kevin Edwards

Professor Kevin Edwards The University of Aberdeen School of Geosciences Chair in Physical Geography work +44 (0)1224 272346 work fax +44 (0)1224 272331 pref kevin.edwards@abdn.ac.uk pref Department of Geography and Environment, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, St Mary's, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen AB24 3UF Scotland, UK

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Biography

REF 2014: Panel member for Geography, Environmental Studies and Archaeology, UK Research Excellence Framework Christensen Fellow, St Catherine's College, University of Oxford, 2012 133rd Rhind Lecturer, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland/Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2012 Member of Academia Europaea, 2012 Life Member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, since 2012 Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall and Visiting Scholar, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, 2011-2012 Adjunct Professor in Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, since 2007 Visiting Researcher, Department of Geography and Geology, University of Copenhagen, 2007-09 Adjunct Professor in the Doctoral Faculty of the Graduate School, PhD Program in Anthropology, The City University of New York, since 2002 Research Associate, the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute/Hutton Institute, since 2002 Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2002 Founder Member and Research Associate, Northern Studies Centre, Aberdeen Research Consortium, 2000 Professor in Physical Geography, University of Aberdeen, since 2000 Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1999 Professor of Palaeoecology, Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, University of Sheffield, 1994-2000, Head of Department 1996-1999 Honorary Research Associate, Limnological Research Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1983 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Biogeography, Reader in Palaeoecology, School of Geography, University of Birmingham, 1980-94 Lecturer in Environmental Reconstruction, Department of Geography, Management Committee and Research Member of the Palaeoecology Centre (Departments of Archaeology, Botany, Geography), The Queen's University of Belfast, 1975-80 PhD, 'Palaeoenvironmental and Archaeological Investigations in the Howe of Cromar, Grampian Region, Scotland', University of Aberdeen, 1978 Tutorial Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Aberdeen, 1972-75 MA First Class Honours in Geographical Studies, University of St Andrews, 1972

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Research Interests

Palynology Environmental and anthropogenic change in the North Atlantic region   Mesolithic (hunter-gatherer) impacts on vegetation in Scotland Long-term vegetation and environmental change in the Western and Northern Isles of Scotland Tephropalynological studies Environmental archaeology The above are pursued within the context of the Environmental Change sub-group of the Environmental Processes and Change Research Cluster of the Department.

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Current Research

Landscapes circum-Landnám: Viking settlement in the North Atlantic and its human and ecological consequences: This project was made possible by a major Research Programme Grant for the period 2002-07 from the Leverhulme Trust. The award resulted from a UK-wide competition within the theme 'Long-term settlement in the ancient world'. It enabled a high resolution and comprehensive investigation of what happens environmentally and socially when a group of people - in this case the Vikings - colonise 'pristine' landscapes. Sites in the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland were and are being studied by an interdisciplinary and multinational team including Paul Buckland (Archaeology, Universities of Sheffield and Bournemouth), Andrew Dugmore (Geography, University of Edinburgh), Thomas McGovern (Anthropology, Hunter College, City University New York), Ian Simpson (Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling) and Guðrún Sveinbjarnardóttir (Scandinavian Studies and Archaeology, University College London). Kevin Edwards was PI on the project which was led by the University of Aberdeen. 

Footprints on the edge of Thule: landscapes of Norse-indigenous interaction: This is a development of the Landscapes circum-Landnám project and was funded by the Leverhulme Trust for the period 2007-11. A primary aim is to investigate the complex relationships between humans (Norse incomers and indigenous groups), their economies and interactions with environment in parts of Greenland, Norway and Sweden. Collaborating researchers include Andrew Dugmore and Eva Panagiotakopulu (Geography, University of Edinburgh) and Ian Simpson (Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling), as well as many overseas research collaborators (e.g. in Greenland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark). Kevin Edwards was PI on the project which was led by the University of Aberdeen. 

Pre-agricultural landscape impacts (erosion, fire and vegetational change) and woodland status in western Scotland (including the Inner and Outer Hebrides) and the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland): Pollen, charcoal, palaeoentomological and archaeological studies of early Holocene/Mesolithic environmental and cultural change, including the nature of the woodland cover. The work involves collaboration with archaeologists from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland's First Settlers Project) and Bradford, and palynologists and palaeoentomologists from the Universities of Birmingham, Sheffield and St Andrews. Funding has come from NERC and The Leverhulme Trust.

Palaeolimnological studies of prehistoric agricultural impacts: Studies of lake sediments as repositories of land use and erosional history and involving pollen, chemical, particle size and radiocarbon studies. This is being carried out partly in association with Graeme Whittington, the School of Geography and Geosciences, University of St Andrews with funding for radiocarbon dates from the NERC.

Lateglacial environments in Scotland, including oxygen isotope studies: High resolution palynological, palaeoentomological and stable isotope research aimed at detecting biotic and environmental sensitivity to climate change . This is joint research with the School of Geography and Geosciences, University of St Andrews, the School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Birmingham and the Department of Chemistry, University of Glasgow/SUERC, East Kilbride. Funding for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry ¹⁴C dating and oxygen isotope analysis has come from NERC.

Soil pollution on the remote Scottish islands: High levels of pollution (e.g. lead, zinc, cadmium and arsenic) discovered in the anthropogenic soils of St Kilda seem to be related to peat burning and arable farming practices combined with the local custom of composting seabird waste. This project aims to continue investigations on St Kilda and to place the results in a wider context. This is joint research with the Departments of Plant & Soil Science and Chemistry, University of Aberdeen, and the School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, with funding from the Leverhulme Trust.

The antiquity and environmental signatures of ancient tin mining in SW Britain: The precise date of tin mining – and the related metallurgical extraction of copper, lead and silver in Devon and Cornwall – was unknown and has been subject to historical comment/myth for millennia. This project investigated the chemical signatures in raised mires from Bodmin Moor and Dartmoor accompanied by AMS ¹⁴C dating. The outcome has significance for the economic (pre-)history of Europe. This is joint research with Andrew Meharg (Department of Plant & Soil Science, University of Aberdeen and is funded by NERC (Meharg and Edwards co-PIs).

Reconstructing 8000 years of environmental and landscape change in the Cairngorms: New discoveries of well preserved sub-fossil pine stems in lakes from the northwest Cairngorms highlight the potential of deriving a long Holocene length tree-ring record for this region. Combined with palynology and geochemical data, multiproxy approaches enable an examination of environmental change during the Holocene, including: the first comprehensive appraisal of human influence on the vegetational structure of the region; quantified tree-ring based inter-annual summer temperature reconstructions for discrete time periods, which will significantly extend high resolution records of climate change in the UK; elucidation of whether periods of forest decline are related to climatic anomalies or human influences. This work is funded by The Leverhulme Trust (2010-13) with co-PIs Rob Wilson (St Andrews), Siwan Davies (Swansea) and Kevin Edwards (Aberdeen).   

Viking Unst: The Viking Unst project began as a collaborative project between the Shetland Amenity Trust and the University of Copenhagen and aims to investigate the archaeological and environmental evidence for Norse settlement on the Island of Unst, Shetland. Our work includes palynological investigations associated with the excavations at Belmont being carried out under the direction of Anne-Christine Larsen of the Vikingeborgen Trelleborg, Sydvestsjællands Museum, Denmark.

 

Current and Recent Research Students

Fraser Green, BSc (Edinburgh), PhD (Aberdeen): Palynology and the Mesolithic of the Isle of Skye and Inner Sound, Scotland  Douglas Borthwick, MA, PhD (Aberdeen): Palynology of Norse settlement, Suðuroy, Faroe Islands   Egill Erlendsson, BS (Iceland), PhD (Aberdeen): Palynology of Norse settlement, southwestern Iceland Clare Brown, BSc (Plymouth), PhD (Aberdeen): Palynology, neoecology, erosion and agriculture, Isle of Skye, Scotland   Ilse Kamerling, BSc, MSc (Free University of Amsterdam): Palynology of Norse and Sami settlement, northern Sweden Paul Ledger, BSc (East Anglia), MSc (Coventry): Palynology of the Norse Eastern Settlement, Greenland

 

 

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Research Grants

£1,235,000    The Leverhulme Trust

Landscapes circum-Landnám: Viking settlement in the North Atlantic and its human and ecological consequences. (Jointly with P.C. Buckland, University of Sheffield, A.J. Dugmore, University of Edinburgh and I.A. Simpson, University of Stirling). 2002-07.

£168,350       The Leverhulme Trust

Did the disposal of seabird waste seriously pollute cultivated soils in remote islands of Scotland? (Jointly with A.Meharg and J. Feldmann, University of Aberdeen and D.A. Davidson, University of Stirling). 2002-05.

£270,000       Scottish Funding Council: SAGES

Scottish Alliance for Geosciences, Environment and Society. For provision of 60% share of 2 lectureships, shared studentships and equipment. 2006-11.    

 £1,000,000    The Leverhulme Trust

Footprints on the edge of Thule: landscapes of Norse-indigenous interaction. (Jointly with A.J. Dugmore and E. Panagiotakopulu, University of Edinburgh and I.A. Simpson, University of Stirling). 2007-11.

 £28,000         Natural Environment Research Council

When was Cornish tin mined and processed in prehistory? (Jointly with A.M. Meharg, University of Aberdeen). 2009.

£4,400            The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland

The potential of the Norse middle settlement of Greenland for a major interdisciplinary research project. (Jointly with J. Edward Schofield, University of Aberdeen). 2010.

£250,000         The Leverhulme Trust

Reconstructing 8000 years of Environmental and Landscape change in the Cairngorms. (Jointly with R. Wilson, St Andrews and S. Davies, Swansea). 2010-13.

 

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External Responsibilities

	Associate Editor: Environmental Archaeology Editorial Boards: Journal of Archaeological Science Journal of the North Atlantic Mediaeval Scandinavia Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Advisory Board: Environmental History and Global Change book series published by I.B. Tauris (London and New York)

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Publications

Contributions to Journals

Articles

• Payne, RJ., Edwards, KJ. & Blackford, JJ. (2013). 'Volcanic impacts on the Holocene vegetation history of Britain and Ireland: a review and meta-analysis of the palynological evidence'. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, vol 22, no. 2, pp. 153-164.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1007/s00334-012-0359-x
• Schofield, JE., Edwards, KJ., Ledger, PM. & Erlendsson, E. (in press). 'Palynology supports 'Old Norse' introductions to the flora of Greenland'. Journal of Biogeography.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12067
• Ledger, PM., Edwards, KJ. & Schofield, JE. (in press). 'Shieling activity in the Norse Eastern Settlement: palaeoenvironment of the 'Mountain Farm', Vatnahverfi, Greenland'. The Holocene.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1177/0959683612472002
• Edwards, KJ., Cook, GT., Nyegaard, G. & Schofield, JE. (2013). 'Towards a first chronology for the Middle Settlement of Norse Greenland: 14C and related studies of animal bone and environmental material'. Radiocarbon, vol 55, no. 1, pp. 13-29.
  [Online] DOI: 10.2458/azu_js_rc.v55i1.16395
• Edwards, KJ. & Schofield, JE. (2013). 'Investigation of proposed irrigation channels and dams at Garðar/Igaliku, Greenland'. Water History, vol 5, no. 1, pp. 71-92.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1007/s12685-012-0066-7
• Zorie, D., Byock, J., Erlendsson, E., Martin, S., Wake, T. & Edwards, KJ. (2013). 'Feasting in Viking Age Iceland: sustaining a chiefly political economy in a marginal environment'. Antiquity, vol 87, no. 335, pp. 150-165.
• Bunting, MJ., Schofield, JE. & Edwards, KJ. (2013). 'Estimates of relative pollen productivity (RPP) for selected taxa from southern Greenland: A pragmatic solution'. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, vol 190, pp. 66-74.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2012.11.003
• Meharg, AA., Edwards, KJ., Schofield, JE., Raab, A., Feldmann, J., Moran, AC., Bryant, CL., Thornton, B. & Dawson, JJC. (2012). 'First comprehensive peat depositional records for tin, lead and copper associated with the antiquity of Europe's largest cassiterite deposits'. Journal of Archaeological Science, vol 39, no. 3, pp. 717-727.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.037
• Ascough, PL., Church, MJ., Cook, GT., Dunbar, E., Gestsdóttir, H., McGovern, TH., Dugmore, AJ., Friðriksson, A. & Edwards, KJ. (2012). 'Radiocarbon reservoir effects in human bone collagen from northern Iceland'. Journal of Archaeological Science, vol 39, no. 7, pp. 2261-2271.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2012.02.012
• Edwards, KJ. (2012). 'Was the peopling of Iceland a trickle, a steady stream or a deluge?'. Norwegian Archaeological Review, vol 45, no. 2, pp. 220-223.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/00293652.2012.721800
• Meharg, A., Edwards, KJ. & Schofield, JE. (2012). 'Bogged down in history'. Planet Earth, no. Summer, pp. 24-25.
• Schofield, JE. & Edwards, KJ. (2011). 'Grazing impacts and woodland management in Eriksfjord : Betula , coprophilous fungi and the Norse settlement of Greenland'. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, vol 20, no. 3, pp. 181-197.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1007/s00334-011-0281-7
• Golding, KA., Simpson, IA., Schofield, JE. & Edwards, KJ. (2011). 'Norse-Inuit interaction and landscape change in southern Greenland?: A geochronological, pedological and palynological investigation'. Geoarchaeology-An International Journal, vol 26, no. 3, pp. 315-345.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1002/gea.20351
• Edwards, KJ., Schofield, JE., Kirby, JR. & Cook, GT. (2011). 'Problematic but promising ponds?: Palaeoenvironmental evidence from the Norse Eastern Settlement of Greenland'. Journal of Quaternary Science, vol 26, no. 8, pp. 854-865.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1518
• Edwards, KJ., Vickers, K., Erlendsson, E., Church, M. & Bending, J. (2011). '1000 years of environmental change and human impact at Stóra-Mörk, southern Iceland: a multiproxy study of a dynamic and vulnerable landscape'. The Holocene, vol 21, no. 6, pp. 979-995.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1177/0959683611400201
• Edwards, KJ., Stummann Hansen, S. & Bjarnason, G. (2011). 'A scalped peatscape on Nólsoy, Faroe Islands'. Fróðskaparrit, vol 59, pp. 122-132.
• Schofield, JE., Edwards, KJ., Mighall, TM., Martinez Cortizas, A., Rodriguez-Racedo, J. & Cook, G. (2010). 'An integrated geochemical and palynological study of human impacts, soil erosion and storminess from southern Greenland since c. AD 1000'. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, vol 295, no. 1-2, pp. 19-30.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.05.011
• Edwards, KJ., Guttesen, R., Sigvardsen, PJ. & Hansen, SS. (2010). 'Language, Overseas Research and a Stack of Problems in the Faroe Islands'. Scottish Geographical Journal, vol 126, no. 1, pp. 18.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/14702540903497920
• Tweddle, JC. & Edwards, KJ. (2010). 'Pollen preservation zones as an interpretative tool in Holocene palynology'. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, vol 161, no. 1-2, pp. 59-76.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2010.03.004
• Edwards, KJ. & Whittington, G. (2010). 'Lateglacial palaeoenvironmental investigations at Wester Cartmore Farm, Fife and their significance for patterns of vegetation and climate change in east-central Scotland'. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, vol 159, no. 1-2, pp. 14-34.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2009.10.004
• Edwards, KJ., Schofield, JE. & Arneborg, J. (2010). 'Was Erik the Red's Brattahlið located at Qinngua? A dissenting view'. Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, vol 6, no. 6, pp. 83-99.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1484/J.VMS.1.102137
• Buckland, PC., Edwards, KJ., Panagiotakopulu, E. & Schofield, JE. (2009). 'Palaeoecological and historical evidence for manuring and irrigation at Garðar (Igaliku), Norse Eastern Settlement, Greenland'. The Holocene, vol 19, no. 1, pp. 105-116.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1177/0959683608096602
• Donaldson, MP., Edwards, KJ., Meharg, AA., Deacon, CM. & Davidson, DA. (2009). 'Land use history of Village Bay, Hirta, St Kilda World Heritage Site'. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, vol 153, no. 1-2, pp. 46-61.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2008.06.005
• Erlendsson, E. & Edwards, KJ. (2009). 'The timing and causes of the final pre-settlement expansion of Betula pubescens in Iceland'. The Holocene, vol 19, no. 7, pp. 1083-1091.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1177/0959683609341001
• Gathorne-Hardy, FJ., Erlendsson, E., Langdon, PG. & Edwards, KJ. (2009). 'Lake sediment evidence for late Holocene climate change and landscape erosion in western Iceland'. Journal of Paleolimnology, vol 42, no. 3, pp. 413-426.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1007/s10933-008-9285-4
• Erlendsson, E., Edwards, KJ. & Buckland, PC. (2009). 'Vegetational response to human colonisation of the coastal and volcanic environments of Ketilsstadir, southern Iceland'. Quaternary Research, vol 72, no. 2, pp. 174-187.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2009.05.005
• Richards, K., Batty, M., Edwards, KJ., Findlay, A., Foody, G., Frostick, L., Jones, K., Lee, R., Livingstone, D., Marsden, T., Petts, J., Philo, C., Smith, S., Simon, D. & Thomas, D. (2009). 'The nature of publishing and assessment in Geography and Environmental Studies: evidence from the Research Assessment Exercise 2008'. Area, vol 41, no. 3, pp. 231-243.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2009.00908.x
• Edwards, KJ., Dugmore, AJ., Panagiotakopulu, E., Simpson, IA., Schofield, JE., Golding, KA. & Casely, AF. (2009). 'Footprints on the edge of Thule: landscapes of Norse-indigenous interaction: A major new research programme'. Journal of Northern Studies, vol 2, pp. 117-129.
• Edwards, KJ., Schofield, JE. & Mauquoy, D. (2008). 'High resolution paleoenvironmental and chronological investigations of Norse landnám at Tasiusaq, Eastern Settlement, Greenland'. Quaternary Research, vol 69, no. 1, pp. 1-15.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2007.10.010
• Schofield, JE., Edwards, KJ. & Christensen, C. (2008). 'Environmental impacts around the time of Norse landnám in the Qorlortoq valley, Eastern Settlement, Greenland'. Journal of Archaeological Science, vol 35, no. 6, pp. 1643-1657.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2007.11.004
• Lawson, IT., Edwards, KJ., Church, MJ., Newton, AJ., Cook, GT., Gathorne-Hardy, FJ. & Dugmore, AJ. (2008). 'Human impact on an island ecosystem: pollen data from Sandoy, Faroe Islands'. Journal of Biogeography, vol 35, no. 6, pp. 1130-1152.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01838.x
• Buckland, P., Edwards, KJ., Panagiotakopulu, E. & Schofield, JE. (2008). 'Land management at the bishop's seat, Garðar , medieval Greenland'. Antiquity, vol 82, no. 315.
• Edwards, KJ., Guttesen, R. & Sigvardsen, PJ. (2008). 'A peatland landscape at Akraberg, Suouroy, Faroe Islands: Peat mounds and a cautionary lesson'. Danish Journal of Geography, vol 108, no. 2, pp. 27-35.
• Edwards, KJ., Langdon, PG. & Sugden, H. (2007). 'Separating climatic and possible human impacts in the early Holocene: Biotic response around the time of the 8200 cal. yr BP event'. Journal of Quaternary Science, vol 22, no. 1, pp. 77-84.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1002/JQS.1018
• Schofield, JE., Edwards, KJ. & McMullen, JA. (2007). 'Modern pollen-vegetation relationships in subarctic southern Greenland and the interpretation of fossil pollen data from the Norse landn á m'. Journal of Biogeography, vol 34, no. 3, pp. 473-488.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2699.2006.01607.X
• Lawson, IT., Church, MJ., Edwards, KJ., Cook, GT. & Dugmore, AJ. (2007). 'Peat initiation in the Faroe Islands: climate change, pedogenesis or human impact?'. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol 98, no. 1, pp. 15-28.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1017/S1755691007000035
• Gathorne-Hardy, FJ., Lawson, IT., Church, MJ., Brooks, SJ., Buckland, PC. & Edwards, KJ. (2007). 'The Chironomidae of Gróthúsvatn, Sandoy, Faroe Islands: Climatic and lake-phosphorus reconstructions, and the impact of human settlement'. The Holocene, vol 17, no. 8, pp. 1259-1264.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1177/0959683607085133
• Dugmore, AJ., Borthwick, DM., Church, MJ., Dawson, A., Edwards, KJ., Keller, C., Mayewski, P., McGovern, TH., Mairs, K-A & 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, vol 35, no. 2, pp. 169-178.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1007/s10745-006-9051-z
• McGovern, TH., Vesteinsson, O., Fridriksson, A., Church, M., Lawson, I., Simpson, IA., Einarsson, A., Dugmore, A., Cook, G., Perdikaris, S., Edwards, KJ., Thomson, AM., Adderley, WP., Newton, A., Lucas, G., Edvardsson, R., Aldred, O. & Dunbar, E. (2007). 'Landscapes of Settlement in Northern Iceland: Historical Ecology of Human Impact and Climate Fluctuation on the Millennial Scale'. American Anthropologist, vol 109, no. 1, pp. 27-51.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1525/AA.2007.109.1.27
• Lawson, IT., Gathorne-Hardy, FJ., Church, MJ., Newton, AJ., Edwards, KJ., Dugmore, AJ. & Einarsson, A. (2007). 'Environmental impacts of the Norse settlement: palaeoenvironmental data from Myvatnssveit, northern Iceland'. Boreas, vol 36, no. 1, pp. 1-19.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2007.tb01176.x
• Davidson, DA., Wilson, CA., Meharg, AA., Deacon, C. & Edwards, KJ. (2007). 'The legacy of past manuring practices on soil contamination in remote rural areas'. Environment International, vol 33, no. 1, pp. 78-83.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2006.07.001
• Sveinbjarnardóttir, G., Erlendsson, E., Vickers, K., McGovern, T., Milek, KB., Edwards, KJ., Simpson, IA. & Cook, G. (2007). 'The palaeoecology of a high status Icelandic farm'. Environmental Archaeology, vol 12, no. 2, pp. 187-206.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1179/174963107x226453
• Meharg, AA., Deacon, CM., Edwards, KJ., Donaldson, M., Davidson, DA., Spring, C., Scrimgeour, CM., Feldmann, J. & Raab, A. (2006). 'Ancient manuring practices pollute arable soils at the St Kilda World Heritage Site, Scottish North Atlantic'. Chemosphere, vol 64, pp. 1818-1828.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2006.01.076
• Edwards, KJ., Whittington, G. & Ritchie, W. (2005). 'The possible role of humans in the early stages of machair evolution: palaeoenvironmental investigations in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland'. Journal of Archaeological Science, vol 32, no. 3, pp. 435-449.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2004.09.011
• Edwards, KJ., Whittington, G., Robinson, M. & Richter, R. (2005). 'Palaeoenvironments, the archaeological record and cereal pollen detection at Clickimin, Shetland, Scotland'. Journal of Archaeological Science, vol 32, pp. 1741-1756.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2005.06.004
• Edwards, KJ., Borthwick, DM., Cook, G., Dugmore, AJ., Mairs, KA., Church, MJ., Simpson, IA. & Adderley, WP. (2005). 'A hypothesis-based approach to landscape change in Suðuroy, Faroe Islands'. Human Ecology, vol 33, pp. 621-650.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1007/s10745-005-4746-0
• Lawson, IT., Dugmore, AJ., Buckland, PC., Church, MJ., Edwards, KJ., McGovern, TH., Panagiotakopulu, E., Simpson, IA., Skidmore, P. & Sveinbjarnardottir, G. (in press). 'The Norse landnam on the North Atlantic islands: an environmental impact assessment'. Polar Record, vol 41, pp. 21-37.
• Edwards, KJ. (2005). '"On the windy edge of nothing": A historical human ecology of the Faroe Islands'. Human Ecology, vol 33, pp. 585-596.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1007/s10745-005-7678-9
• Dugmore, AJ., Church, MJ., Buckland, PC., Edwards, KJ., Lawson, I., McGovern, TH., Panagiotakopulu, E., Simpson, IA., Skidmore, P. & Sveinbjarnardottir, G. (2005). 'The Norse landnam on the North Atlantic islands: an environmental impact assessment'. Polar Record, vol 41, no. 1, pp. 21-37.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1017/S0032247404003985
• Edwards, KJ., Lawson, IT., Erlendsson, E. & Dugmore, AJ. (2005). 'Landscapes of contrast in Viking Age Iceland and the Faroe Islands'. Landscapes, vol 6, no. 2, pp. 63-81.
• Edwards, KJ. & Clark, SHE. (2004). 'Elm bark beetle in Holocene peat deposits and the northwest European elm decline'. Journal of Quaternary Science, vol 19, pp. 525-528.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1002/jqs.863
• Edwards, KJ., Dugmore, AJ. & Blackford, JJ. (2004). 'Vegetational response to tephra deposition and land use change in Iceland-a modern analogue and multiple working hypothesis approach to tephropalynology'. Polar Record, vol 40, pp. 113-120.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1017/S0032247403003000
• Whittington, G., Buckland, P., Edwards, KJ., Greenwood, M. & Robinson, M. (2003). 'Multiproxy Devensian Late-glacial and Holocene environmental records at an Atlantic coastal site in Shetland'. Journal of Quaternary Science, vol 18, pp. 151-168.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1002/jqs.746
• Branigan, K., Edwards, KJ. & Merrony, C. (2002). 'Bronze Age fuel: the oldest direct evidence for deep peat cutting and stack construction?'. Antiquity, vol 76, pp. 849-855.
• Beialy, E., Edwards, KJ. & El-Mahmoudi, AS. (2001). 'Geophysical and palynological investigations of the Tell El Dabaa archaeological site, Nile Delta, Egypt'. Antiquity, vol 75, pp. 735-744.
• Whittington, G. & Edwards, KJ. (2001). 'Vegetational stability and rare species from Early Holocene Lewis'. Botanical Journal of Scotland, vol 53, pp. 121-133.
• Edwards, KJ. & Whittington, G. (2001). 'Lake sediments, erosion and landscape change during the Holocene in Britain and Ireland'. Catena, vol 42, pp. 143-173.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/S0341-8162(00)00136-3
• Ritchie, W., Whittington, G. & Edwards, KJ. (2001). 'Holocene changes in the physiography and vegetation of the Atlantic littoral of the Uists, Outer Hebrides, Scotland'. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh-Earth, vol 92, pp. 121-136.
• Ashmore, P., Brayshay, BA., Edwards, KJ., Gilbertson, DD., Grattan, JP., Kent, M., Pratt, KM. & Weaver, RE. (2000). 'Allochthonous and autochthonous mire deposits in relation to slope instability: palaeoenvironmental investigations in the Borve Valley, Barra, Outer Hebrides, Scotland'. The Holocene, vol 10, pp. 97-108.
• Whittington, G. & Edwards, KJ. (2000). 'Illecebrum verticillatum L. in the Outer Hebrides'. Botanical Journal of Scotland, vol 52, pp. 101-104.

Reviews of Books, Films and Articles

• Edwards, KJ. (2009). 'Peat in the Faroe Islands in History and Cultural History'. The Geographical Journal, vol 175, pp. 164.
• Edwards, KJ. (2004). 'The peopling of Britain - the shaping of a human landscape: The Linacre Lectures 1999. Edited by P. Slack and R. Ward'. The Geographical Journal, vol 170, no. 3, pp. 288-288.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.0016-7398.2004.00128.x

Editorials

• Edwards, KJ. & Bird, M. (2007). 'Untitled'. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol 98, pp. VV.

Special Issues

• Edwards, KJ. & Bird, MJ. (eds) (2007). 'Holocene environmental change: Lessons from small oceanic islands'. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol 98, no. 1, pp. 1-125.
• Edwards, KJ. (ed.) (2005). 'Historical Human Ecology of the Faroe Islands'. Human Ecology, vol 33, no. 5, pp. 513-651.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1007/s10745-005-7678-9

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings

Chapters

• Edwards, KJ., Schofield, JE. & Swindles, GT. (2013). 'Palaeoenvironmental investigations of mire deposits from Unst'. in VE Turner, JM Bond & A-C Larsen (eds), Viking Unst: Excavation and Survey in Northern Shetland 2006-2010. Shetland Heritage Publications, Lerwick, pp. 75-90.
• Edwards, KJ., Erlendsson, E. & Schofield, JE. (2011). 'Is there a Norse ‘footprint’ in North Atlantic pollen records'. in S Sigmundsson, A Holt, G Sigurðsson, G Ólafsson & O Vésteinsson (eds), Viking settlements and society: papers from the Sixteenth Viking Congress, Reykjavík and Reykholt, 16-23 August 2009.. Hið íslenska fornleifafélag and University of Iceland Press, Reykjavík, pp. 65-82.
• Edwards, KJ. & Borthwick, DM. (2010). 'The pollen content of so-called ‘ancient’ field systems in Suðuroy, Faroe Islands, and the question of cereal cultivation'. in S-A Bengtson, P Buckland, PH Enckell & AM Fosaa (eds), Dorete – her book: - being a tribute to Dorete Bloch and to Faroese nature. Annales Societatis Scientiarum Færoensis, vol. 52, Fróðskapur, Faroe University Press, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, pp. 90-110.
• Edwards, KJ. & Borthwick, DM. (2010). 'Peaceful wars and scientific invaders: Irishmen, Vikings and palynological evidence for the earliest settlement of the Faroe Islands'. in J Sheehan, D Ó Corráin & S Lewis-simpson (eds), The Viking Age: Ireland and the West. Four Courts Press, Dublin, Ireland, pp. 66-79, 15th Viking Congress, Cork, Ireland, 18-27 August.
• Edwards, KJ., Schofield, JE., Whittington, G. & Melton, ND. (2009). 'Palynology 'On The Edge' and the Archaeological Vindication of a Mesolithic Presence?: The case of Shetland'. in N Finlay, S McCartan, N Milner & C Wickham-Jones (eds), From Bann Flakes to Bushmills: papers in honour of Professor Peter Woodman. Prehistoric Society Research Papers, no. 1, Oxbow Books, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 113-123.
• Lawson, IT., Milek, KB., Adderley, WP., Casely, AF., Church, MJ., Duarte, L., Dugmore, AJ., Edwards, KJ., Gathorne-Hardy, FJ., Guðmundsson, G., Morrison, S., Newton, AJ. & Simpson, IA. (2009). 'The palaeoenvironment of Mývatnssveit during the Viking Age and early Medieval period'. in G Lucas (ed.), Hofstaðir: Excavations of a Viking Age feasting hall in north-eastern Iceland. Institute of Archaeology Monograph Series 1, no. 1, Fornleifastofnun Íslands (Institute of Archaeology, Iceland), Reykjavik, Iceland, pp. 26-54.
• Green, FM. & Edwards, KJ. (2009). 'Palynological studies in northeast Skye and Raasay'. in K Hardy & C Wickham-Jones (eds), Mesolithic and later sites around the Inner Sound, Scotland: The work of the Scotland’s First Settlers project 1998-2004. vol. 31, Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports, no. 31, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
• Green, FM. & Edwards, KJ. (2009). 'Palynological studies at Sand, Applecross'. in K Hardy & C Wickham-Jones (eds), Mesolithic and later sites around the Inner Sound, Scotland: the work of the Scotland’s First Settlers project 1998-2004. vol. 31, Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports, no. 31, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
• Edwards, KJ. (2009). 'The development and historiography of pollen studies in the Mesolithic of the Scottish islands'. in S McCartan, R Schulting, G Warren & P Woodman (eds), Mesolithic Horizons: papers presented at the Seventh International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe, Belfast 2005. vol. 2, Oxbow Books, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 900-906.
• Edwards, KJ. (2008). 'Juniper, goats and the Norse: did the decline of Juniperus in the Faroe Islands have a human cause?'. in C Paulsen & HD Michelsen (eds), Símunarbók : Heiðursrit til Símun V. Arge á 60 ára degnum. Fróðskapur, Faroe University Press, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, pp. 58-71.
• McMullen, JA. & Edwards, KJ. (2007). 'The vegetation of grass roofs in the Faroe Islands and the surrounding grassland vegetation – a study from Sandoy'. in D Bloch & F Gaini (eds), Fróðskaparrit. vol. 55, Fróðskapur, Faroe University Press, pp. 115-125.
• Edwards, KJ. (2000). 'Vegetation history of the southern Inner Hebrides during the Mesolithic period'. in SJ Mithen (ed.), Hunter-gatherer landscape archaeology : The Southern Hebrides Mesolithic Project 1988-1998. McDonald Institute Monographs, Cambridge, pp. 115-127.

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