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Professor Kevin Edwards

Professor Kevin Edwards
Professor Kevin Edwards
Professor Kevin Edwards

MA, PhD, DSc, FRSGS, FRGS, FSAScot, FSA, FRSE, MAE

Emeritus Professor

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Email Address
kevin.edwards@abdn.ac.uk
Office Address

Department of Geography and Environment, 
School of Geosciences,
University of Aberdeen,
St Mary's, Elphinstone Road,
Aberdeen AB24 3UF
Scotland, UK

 

& Clare Hall, 

Herschel Road,

Cambridge CB3 9AL,

UK

 

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Biography

 

 
 
  • Honorary Life Member, Quaternary Research Association, 2022-
  • Senior Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Univ. of Cambridge, 2019-
  • Coppock Research Medal and Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, 2018
  • Institute Associate, Scott Polar Research Institute, Univ. of Cambridge, 2018-
  • DSc, 'Studies in Quaternary, Geographical and Archaeological Science', Univ. of St Andrews, 2014
  • REF 2014: Panel member for Geography, Environmental Studies and Archaeology, UK Research Excellence Framework
  • Christensen Fellow, St Catherine's College, Univ. of Oxford, 2012
  • 133rd Rhind Lecturer, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2012
  • Member of Academia Europaea, 2012
  • Life Member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, 2012-, Fellow Commoner, 2020- 
  • Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall and Visiting Scholar, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Univ. of Cambridge, 2011-2012
  • RAE 2008: Panel member for Geography and Environmental Studies, UK Research Assessment Exercise
  • Visiting Researcher, Geography & Geology, Univ. of Copenhagen, 2007-09
  • Adjunct Professor, Doctoral Faculty of the Graduate School, The City Univ. of New York, 2002-
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2002
  • Professor in Physical Geography, Univ. of Aberdeen, 2000-17, Adjunct Professor in Archaeology, 2007-, Emeritus Professor in Geography, 2018-
  • Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1999
  • Professor of Palaeoecology, Dept. of Archaeology & Prehistory, Univ. of Sheffield, 1994-2000, Head of Dept. 1996-1999
  • Honorary Research Associate, Limnological Research Center, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1983
  • Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Biogeography, Reader in Palaeoecology, School of Geography, Univ. of Birmingham, 1980-94
  • Lecturer, Dept. of Geography and Palaeoecology Centre, The Queen's Univ. of Belfast, 1975-80
  • PhD, University of Aberdeen, 1978
  • Tutorial Fellow, Dept. of Geography, Univ.of Aberdeen, 1972-75
  • MA First Class Honours in Geographical Studies, Univ. of St Andrews, 1972

External Memberships

 

 
 

CURRENT EDITORIAL ROLES

Editorial Boards:

  • Palynology
  • Journal of Archaeological Science  
  • North Atlantic World book series (Brepols)

 
Research

Research Overview

 
 
  • 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
  • History of Science

The above are pursued within the context of the Environmental Change sub-group of the Environmental Processes and Change Research Cluster of the Department.

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.

History of science: Archive-based historiographical and biographical research into two main areas: (i) the history of palynology; (ii) James Croll. The research is based heavily on fresh archival work (e.g. in the British Library [London], Imperial College London, the National Museum of Wales [Cardiff], BGS [Keyworth], Tolson Memorial Museum [Huddersfield], Royal Society of Edinburgh, University of St Andrews, University of Glasgow, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Swedish Museum of Natural History [both Stockholm]). 

  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), PhD (Aberdeen): Palynology of Norse and Sami settlement, northern Sweden
  • Paul Ledger, BSc (East Anglia), MSc (Coventry), PhD (Aberdeen): Palynology of the Norse Eastern Settlement, Greenland
  • Patricia Wiltshire, BSc (London), DSc hc (Glous), PhD (Aberdeen): Developing forensic palynology 
  • Claire Christie, MA (Aberdeen), MA (UCL), PhD (Aberdeen): The prehistoric settlement of West Mainland, Shetland

 

 

Funding and 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 forGeosciences, 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.

$15,000           National Geographic

 Palaeoecological investigations at Point Rosee, Newfoundland. (Jointly with J.E. Schofield). 2016-17.

Publications

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  • A multiple profile approach to the palynological reconstruction of Norse landscapes in Greenland's Eastern Settlement

    Ledger, P. M., Edwards, K. J., Schofield, J. E.
    Quaternary Research, vol. 82, no. 1, pp. 22-37
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Holocene changes in vegetation composition in northern Europe: Why quantitative pollen-based vegetation reconstructions matter

    Marquer, L., Gaillard, M. J., Sugita, S., Trondman, A. K., Mazier, F., Nielsen, A. B., Fyfe, R. M., Odgaard, B. V., Alenius, T., Birks, H. J. B., Bjune, A. E., Christiansen, J., Dodson, J., Edwards, K. J., Giesecke, T., Herzschuh, U., Kangur, M., Lorenz, S., Poska, A., Schult, M., Seppä, H.
    Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 90, pp. 199-216
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Landscape change, land use and occupation patterns inferred from two palaeoenvironmental datasets from the Mosfell Valley, SW Iceland

    Erlendsson, E., Edwards, K. J., Gísladóttir, G.
    Viking Archaeology in Iceland: Mosfell Archaeological Project. Zori, D., Byock, J. (eds.). Brepols Publishers, pp. 181-192, 12 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Early farming, pollen and landscape impacts from northern Europe to the North Atlantic: conundrums

    Edwards, K.
    Northern Worlds: landscapes, interactions and dynamics. Gulløv, H. (ed.). PNM, Publications from the National Museum Studies in Archaeology & History, pp. 189-201, 13 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Stable isotopic (δ13C and δ15N) characterization of key faunal resources from Norse period settlements in North Iceland

    Ascough, P. L., Church, M. J., Cook, G. T., Einarsson, ?., McGovern, T. H., Dugmore, A. J., Edwards, K. J.
    Journal of the North Atlantic, vol. Special Volume 7, pp. 25-42
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Vatnahverfi: a green and pleasant land? Palaeoecological reconstructions and environmental land-use change

    Ledger, P. M., Edwards, K. J., Schofield, J. E.
    Journal of the North Atlantic, vol. 6, pp. 29-46
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Toftanes. A Viking Age Farmstead in the Faroe Islands

    Bending, J. (ed.), Buckland, P. C. (ed.), Christensen, K. (ed.), Edwards, K. J. (ed.), Hunter, F. (ed.), Jouttijarvi, A. (ed.), Schofield, J. E. (ed.), Hansen, S. S. (ed.), Vickers, K. (ed.)
    Acta Archaeologica, vol. 84, no. 1, pp. 5-239
    Contributions to Journals: Special Issues

  • Erratum to The European Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) project (Veget Hist Archaeobot, 10.1007/s00334-012-0388-5)

    Davis, B. A. S., Zanon, M., Collins, P., Mauri, A., Bakker, J., Barboni, D., Barthelmes, A., Beaudouin, C., Birks, H. J. B., Bjune, A. E., Bozilova, E., Bradshaw, R. H. W., Brayshay, B. A., Brewer, S., Brugiapaglia, E., Bunting, J., Connor, S. E., de Beaulieu, J. L., Edwards, K. J., Ejarque, A., Fall, P., Florenzano, A., Fyfe, R., Galop, D., Giardini, M., Giesecke, T., Grant, M. J., Guiot, J., Jahns, S., Jankovská, V., Juggins, S., Kahrmann, M., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Kołaczek, P., Kühl, N., Kuneš, P., Lapteva, E. G., Leroy, S. A. G., Leydet, M., Sáez, J. A. L., Masi, A., Matthias, I., Mazier, F., Meltsov, V., Mercuri, A. M., Miras, Y., Mitchell, F. J. G., Morris, J. L., Naughton, F., Nielsen, A. B., Novenko, E., Odgaard, B., Ortu, E., Overballe-Petersen, M. V., Pardoe, H. S., Peglar, S. M., Pidek, I. A., Sadori, L., Seppä, H., Severova, E., Shaw, H., Świeta-Musznicka, J., Theuerkauf, M., Tonkov, S., Veski, S., van der Knaap, P. W. O., van Leeuwen, J. F. N., Woodbridge, J., Zimny, M., Kaplan, J. O., Edwards, K.
    Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 531
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The European Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) project

    Davis, B. A. S., Zanon, M., Collins, P., Mauri, A., Bakker, J., Barboni, D., Barthelmes, A., Beaudouin, C., Bjune, A. E., Bozilova, E., Bradshaw, R. H. W., Brayshay, B. A., Brewer, S., Brugiapaglia, E., Bunting, J., Connor, S. E., de Beaulieu, J. L., Edwards, K., Ejarque, A., Fall, P., Florenzano, A., Fyfe, R., Galop, D., Giardini, M., Giesecke, T., Grant, M. J., Guiot, J., Jahns, S., Jankovská, V., Juggins, S., Kahrmann, M., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Kołaczek, P., Kühl, N., Kuneš, P., Lapteva, E. G., Leroy, S. A. G., Leydet, M., Guiot, J., Jahns, S., Jankovská, V., Juggins, S., Kahrmann, M., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Kołaczek, P., Kühl, N., Kuneš, P., Lapteva, E. G., Leroy, S. A. G., Leydet, M., López Sáez, J. A., Masi, A., Matthias, I., Mazier, F., Meltsov, V., Mercuri, A. M., Miras, Y., Mitchell, F. J. G., Morris, J. L., Naughton, F., Nielsen, A. B., Novenko, E., Odgaard, B., Ortu, E., Overballe-Petersen, M. V., Pardoe, H. S., Peglar, S. M., Pidek, I. A., Sadori, L., Seppä, H., Severova, E., Shaw, H., Świeta-Musznicka, J., Theuerkauf, M., Tonkov, S., Veski, S., van der Knaap, W. O., van Leeuwen, J. F. N., Woodbridge, J., Zimny, M., Kaplan, J. O.
    Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 521-530
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The Vikings were not the first colonizers of the Faroe Islands

    Church, M. J., Arge, S. V., Edwards, K. J., Ascough, P. L., Bond, J. M., Cook, G. T., Dockrill, S. J., Dugmore, A. J., McGovern, T. H., Nesbitt, C., Simpson, I. A.
    Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 77, pp. 228-232
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Re-deposited cryptotephra layers in Holocene peats linked to anthropogenic activity

    Swindles, G. T., Galloway, J., Outram, Z., Turner, K., Schofield, J. E., Newton, A. J., Dugmore, A. J., Church, M. J., Watson, E. J., Batt, C., Bond, J., Edwards, K. J., Turner, V., Bashford, D.
    The Holocene, vol. 23, no. 10, pp. 1493-1501
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The Holocene vegetation cover of Britain and Ireland: Overcoming problems of scale and discerning patterns of openness

    Fyfe, R. M., Twiddle, C., Sugita, S., Gaillard, M. J., Barratt, P., Caseldine, C. J., Dodson, J., Edwards, K. J., Farrell, M., Froyd, C., Grant, M. J., Huckerby, E., Innes, J. B., Shaw, H., Waller, M.
    Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 73, pp. 132-148
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Palynology supports 'Old Norse' introductions to the flora of Greenland

    Schofield, J. E., Edwards, K. J., Erlendsson, E., Ledger, P. M.
    Journal of Biogeography, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 1119-1130
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Shieling activity in the Norse Eastern Settlement: palaeoenvironment of the 'Mountain Farm', Vatnahverfi, Greenland

    Ledger, P. M., Edwards, K. J., Schofield, J. E.
    The Holocene, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 810-822
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Investigation of proposed irrigation channels and dams at Garðar/Igaliku, Greenland

    Edwards, K. J., Schofield, J. E.
    Water History, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 71-92
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Estimates of relative pollen productivity (RPP) for selected taxa from southern Greenland: A pragmatic solution

    Bunting, M. J., Schofield, J. E., Edwards, K. J.
    Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, vol. 190, pp. 66-74
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • An Appreciation: Neil Smith (1954-2012)

    Edwards, K. J., Ellis, R., Philip, L. J.
    Scottish Geographical Journal, vol. 129, no. 1, pp. 54-56
    Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates

  • Feasting in Viking Age Iceland: sustaining a chiefly political economy in a marginal environment

    Zorie, D., Byock, J., Erlendsson, E., Martin, S., Wake, T., Edwards, K. J.
    Antiquity, vol. 87, no. 335, pp. 150-165
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Volcanic impacts on the Holocene vegetation history of Britain and Ireland?: A review and meta-analysis of the pollen evidence

    Payne, R. J., Edwards, K. J., Blackford, J. J.
    Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 153-164
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Environmental and human impact on the macrobiotic assemblage in the Burullus Lagoon, North Nile Delta, Egypt

    Abu-Zeid, R., Ameen, N., El Beialy, S., Ayyad, S., Edwards, K. J.
    Micropaleontology , vol. 59, no. 2-3, pp. 133-144
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Palaeoenvironmental investigations of mire deposits from Unst

    Edwards, K. J., Schofield, J. E., Swindles, G. T.
    Viking Unst: Excavation and Survey in Northern Shetland 2006-2010. Turner, V. E., Bond, J. M., Larsen, A. (eds.). Shetland Heritage Publications, pp. 75-90, 16 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Towards a first chronology for the Middle Settlement of Norse Greenland: 14C and related studies of animal bone and environmental material

    Edwards, K. J., Cook, G. T., Nyegaard, G., Schofield, J. E.
    Radiocarbon, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 13-29
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Radiocarbon reservoir effects in human bone collagen from northern Iceland

    Ascough, P. L., Church, M. J., Cook, G. T., Dunbar, E., Gestsdóttir, H., McGovern, T. H., Dugmore, A. J., Friðriksson, A., Edwards, K. J.
    Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 39, no. 7, pp. 2261-2271
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • First comprehensive peat depositional records for tin, lead and copper associated with the antiquity of Europe's largest cassiterite deposits

    Meharg, A. A., Edwards, K. J., Schofield, J. E., Raab, A., Feldmann, J., Moran, A., Bryant, C. L., Thornton, B., Dawson, J. J.
    Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 717-727
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Bogged down in history

    Meharg, A., Edwards, K. J., Schofield, J.
    Planet Earth, no. Summer, pp. 24-25
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Was the peopling of Iceland a trickle, a steady stream or a deluge?

    Edwards, K. J.
    Norwegian Archaeological Review, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 220-223
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Problematic but promising ponds?: Palaeoenvironmental evidence from the Norse Eastern Settlement of Greenland

    Edwards, K. J., Schofield, J. E., Kirby, J. R., Cook, G. T.
    Journal of Quaternary Science, vol. 26, no. 8, pp. 854-865
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • 1000 years of environmental change and human impact at Stóra-Mörk, southern Iceland: a multiproxy study of a dynamic and vulnerable landscape

    Vickers, K., Erlendsson, E., Church, M., Edwards, K., Bending, J.
    The Holocene, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 979-995
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Grazing impacts and woodland management in Eriksfjord: Betula, coprophilous fungi and the Norse settlement of Greenland

    Schofield, J. E., Edwards, K. J.
    Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 181-197
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Norse-Inuit interaction and landscape change in southern Greenland?: A geochronological, pedological and palynological investigation

    Golding, K. A., Simpson, I. A., Schofield, J. E., Edwards, K. J.
    Geoarchaeology-An International Journal, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 315-345
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • A scalped peatscape on Nólsoy, Faroe Islands.

    Edwards, K. J., Stummann Hansen, S., Bjarnason, G.
    Fróðskaparrit , vol. 59, pp. 122-132
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Is there a Norse ‘footprint’ in North Atlantic pollen records.

    Edwards, K. J., Erlendsson, E., Schofield, J. E.
    Viking settlements and society: papers from the Sixteenth Viking Congress, Reykjavík and Reykholt, 16-23 August 2009.. Sigmundsson, S., Holt, A., Sigurðsson, G., Ólafsson, G., Vésteinsson, O. (eds.). Hið íslenska fornleifafélag and University of Iceland Press, pp. 65-82, 18 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • An integrated geochemical and palynological study of human impacts, soil erosion and storminess from southern Greenland since c. AD 1000

    Schofield, J. E., Edwards, K. J., Mighall, T. M., Martinez Cortizas, A., Rodriguez-Racedo, J., Cook, G.
    Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, vol. 295, no. 1-2, pp. 19-30
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Pollen preservation zones as an interpretative tool in Holocene palynology

    Tweddle, J. C., Edwards, K. J.
    Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, vol. 161, no. 1-2, pp. 59-76
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Peaceful wars and scientific invaders: Irishmen, Vikings and palynological evidence for the earliest settlement of the Faroe Islands

    Edwards, K. J., Borthwick, D. B.
    The Viking Age: Ireland and the West. Sheehan, J., Ó Corráin, D. (eds.). Four Courts Press, pp. 66-79, 14 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Lateglacial palaeoenvironmental investigations at Wester Cartmore Farm, Fife and their significance for patterns of vegetation and climate change in east-central Scotland

    Edwards, K. J., Whittington, G.
    Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, vol. 159, no. 1-2, pp. 14-34
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Language, Overseas Research and a Stack of Problems in the Faroe Islands

    Edwards, K. J., Guttesen, R., Sigvardsen, P. J., Hansen, S. S.
    Scottish Geographical Journal, vol. 126, no. 1, pp. 18
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The pollen content of so-called ‘ancient’ field systems in Suðuroy, Faroe Islands, and the question of cereal cultivation

    Edwards, K. J., Borthwick, D. M.
    Dorete – her book: - being a tribute to Dorete Bloch and to Faroese nature. Bengtson, S., Buckland, P., Enckell, P., Fosaa, A. (eds.). Fróðskapur, Faroe University Press, pp. 90-110, 21 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Was Erik the Red's Brattahlið located at Qinngua?: a dissenting view

    Edwards, K. J., Schofield, J. E., Arneborg, J.
    Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 83-99
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The timing and causes of the final pre-settlement expansion of Betula pubescens in Iceland

    Erlendsson, E., Edwards, K. J.
    The Holocene, vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 1083-1091
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Lake sediment evidence for late Holocene climate change and landscape erosion in western Iceland

    Gathorne-Hardy, F. J., Erlendsson, E., Langdon, P. G., Edwards, K. J.
    Journal of Paleolimnology, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 413-426
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The nature of publishing and assessment in Geography and Environmental Studies: evidence from the Research Assessment Exercise 2008

    Richards, K., Batty, M., Edwards, K., Findlay, A., Foody, G., Frostick, L., Jones, K., Lee, R., Livingstone, D., Marsden, T., Petts, J., Philo, C., Smith, S., Simon, D., Thomas, D.
    Area, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 231-243
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Vegetational response to human colonisation of the coastal and volcanic environments of Ketilsstadir, southern Iceland

    Erlendsson, E., Edwards, K. J., Buckland, P. C.
    Quaternary Research, vol. 72, no. 2, pp. 174-187
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Palynology 'On The Edge' and the Archaeological Vindication of a Mesolithic Presence?: The case of Shetland

    Edwards, K. J., Schofield, J. E., Whittington, G., Melton, N. D.
    From Bann Flakes to Bushmills: papers in honour of Professor Peter Woodman. Finlay, N., McCartan, S., Milner, N., Wickham-Jones, C. (eds.). Oxbow Books, pp. 113-123, 11 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Peat in the Faroe Islands in History and Cultural History

    Edwards, K. J.
    The Geographical Journal, vol. 175, no. 2, pp. 164
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles

  • The development and historiography of pollen studies in the Mesolithic of the Scottish islands

    Edwards, K. J.
    Mesolithic Horizons: papers presented at the Seventh International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe, Belfast 2005. McCartan, S., Schulting, R., Warren, G., Woodman, P. (eds.). Oxbow Books, pp. 900-906, 7 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Palaeoecological and historical evidence for manuring and irrigation at Garðar (Igaliku), Norse Eastern Settlement, Greenland

    Buckland, P. C., Edwards, K. J., Panagiotakopulu, E., Schofield, J. E.
    The Holocene, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 105-116
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Land use history of Village Bay, Hirta, St Kilda World Heritage Site

    Donaldson, M. P., Edwards, K. J., Meharg, A. A., Deacon, C., Davidson, D. A.
    Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, vol. 153, no. 1-2, pp. 46-61
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Footprints on the edge of Thule: landscapes of Norse-indigenous interaction: A major new research programme

    Edwards, K. J., Dugmore, A. J., Panagiotakopulu, E., Simpson, I. A., Schofield, J. E., Golding, K. A., Casely, A. F.
    Journal of Northern Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 117-122
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Palynological studies at Sand, Applecross

    Green, F., Edwards, K.
    Mesolithic and later sites around the Inner Sound, Scotland: the work of the Scotland’s First Settlers project 1998-2004. Hardy, K., Wickham-Jones, C. (eds.). Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, pp. 420-422, 3 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
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