Late Holocene Insect Faunas from Mykines, Faroe Islands, with Observations on issociated Pollen and early Settlement Records Seinholosenar skordýrakanningar og endurmeting av flogsáðog búskrásetingum í Mykinesi

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Published Jan 1, 1998
Paul C. Buckland Kevin J. Edwards Jon P. Sadler Mark H. Dinnin

Abstract

Organic deposits in an abandoned field system on Lambi, Mykines have previously been the subject of a pollen investigation by the late Jóhannes Jóhansen. The polien record was used to argue that the atypical field pattern represented pre-Norse cultivation of oats in the Faroes. This paper presents the results of a re-examination of deposits from Uldalíð, east of Lambi, for fossil beetle remains. The results of this are presented together with a re-evaluation of the pollen record, stratigraphy and radiocarbon dates from Lambi and adjacent sites. The possibility that supposedly anthropochorus taxa may actually have been present in pre-landnam habitats is discussed together with evidence for stratigraphic disturbance caused by burrowing puffins. This leads to an alternative interpretation of the palaeoenvironmental sequence from the site that does not require pre-Norse settlement.

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Natural Sciences