Kevin Edwards - Selected publications#

For fuller list, see: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/geosciences/people/profiles/kevin.edwards

Edwards, K.J. and Ralston, I.B.M. (eds). 2003. Scotland after the Ice Age: environment, archaeology and history, 8 000 BC-AD 1 000. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press and New York: Columbia University Press, 331 pp.

Edwards, K.J. (ed.). 2005. Historical Human Ecology of the Faroe Islands. Human Ecology 33 (5), Berlin: Springer, 176 pp.

Edwards, K.J., Borthwick, D., Cook, G., Dugmore, A.J., Mairs, K.-A., Church, M.J., Simpson, I.A. and Adderley, W.P. 2005. A hypothesis-based approach to landscape change in Suðuroy, Faroe Islands. Human Ecology 33, 621-650.

Edwards, K.J., Whittington, G., Robinson, M. and Richter, D. 2005. Palaeoenvironments, the archaeological record and cereal pollen detection at Clickimin, Shetland. Journal of Archaeological Science 32, 1741-1756.

Edwards, K.J., Borthwick, D., Cook, G., Dugmore, A.J., Mairs, K.-A., Church, M.J., Simpson, I.A. and Adderley, W.P. 2005. A hypothesis-based approach to landscape change in Suðuroy, Faroe Islands. Human Ecology 33, 621-650.

Gregory, R.A., Murphy, E.M., Church, M.J., Edwards, K.J., Guttmann, E.B. and Simpson, D.D.A. 2005. Archaeological evidence for the first Mesolithic occupation of the Western Isles of Scotland. The Holocene 15, 944-950.

Edwards, K.J. and Bird, M.J. (eds). 2007. Holocene environmental change: lessons from
small oceanic islands. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 98 (1), Edinburgh: Royal Society of Edinburgh/Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 125 pp.

Edwards, K.J, Schofield, J.E. and Mauquoy, D. 2008. High resolution paleoenvironmental and chronological investigations of Norse landnám at Tasiusaq, Eastern Settlement, Greenland. Quaternary Research 69, 1-15.

Edwards, K.J., Schofield, J.E. and Arneborg, J. 2010. Was Erik the Red’s Brattahlið located at Qinngua? A dissenting view. Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 6, 83-99.

Edwards, K.J., Guttesen, R., Sigvardsen, P.J. and Stummann Hansen, S. 2010. Language, overseas research and a stack of problems in the Faroe Islands. Scottish Geographical Journal 126, 1-8.

Golding, K.A., Simpson, I.A., Schofield, J.E. and Edwards, K.J. 2011. Norse-Inuit interaction and landscape change in southern Greenland? A geochronological, pedological and palynological investigation. Geoarchaeology 26, 315-345.

Edwards, K.J., Erlendsson, E. and Schofield, J.E. 2011: Is there a Norse ‘footprint’ in North Atlantic pollen records. In Sigmundsson, S., Holt, A., Sigurðsson, G., Ólafsson, G. and Vésteinsson, O. (eds) Viking settlements and society: papers from the Sixteenth Viking Congress, Reykjavík and Reykholt, 16-23 August 2009. Reykjavík: Hið íslenska fornleifafélag and University of Iceland Press, 65-82.

Meharg, A.M., Edwards, K.J., Schofield, J.E., Raab, A., Feldmann, J., Moran, A. and Bryant, C.L. 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 39, 717-727.

Payne, R.J., Edwards, K.J. and Blackford, J.J. 2012. Volcanic impacts on the Holocene vegetation history of Britain and Ireland: a review and meta-analysis of the palynological evidence. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. DOI 10.1007/s00334-012-0359-x

Zori, D., Byock, J., Erlendsson, E., Martin, S., Wake, T. and Edwards, K.J. In press. Feasting in Viking Age Iceland: sustaining a chiefly political economy in a marginal environment. Antiquity.