Mike Church
Reader
Department of Archaeology
Durham University
United Kingdom
Biography
Mike Church is Reader in the Department of Archaeology, Member of the Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution Research (BEER) Centre, Member in the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
Research Interest
My key research theme is the investigation of the interaction between humans and the environment in the North Atlantic islands (including Atlantic Scottish islands, Faroes, Iceland and Greenland) through reconstructing and analyzing 1) trajectories of environmental change 2) the impact of human settlement on palaeoenvironments 3) palaeoeconomies in different island settings 4) cultural adjustments to marginality
Publications
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Church, M. J., Duarte, L., Edwards, K. J., Lawson, I. T. & Newton, A. J. (2010). The palaeoenvironment of Mývatnssveit: Vegetation. In Hofstaðir: Excavations of a Viking Age feasting hall in north-eastern Iceland. Lucas, G. ReykjavÃk: Institute of Archaeology. 32-38.
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McGovern, T. H., Arge, S., Arneborg, J., Ascough, P., Casely, A., Church, M. J., Cook, G., Dugmore, A., Edvardsson, R., Einarsson, A., Fridriksson, A., Hambrecht, G., Harrison, R., Ingason, U., Johannesdottir, S., Keller, C., Lawson, I., Lucas, G., Koch Madsen, C., Newton, A., Ogilvie, A., Perdikaris, S., Roberts, H., Simpson, I., Smiarowski, K., Thomson, A. & Vesteinsson, 0. (2011). Vikings in the International Polar Year 2007-09: Still bloodthirsty but also ecodynamic and educational. In Viking settlements and Viking society: Papers from the Proceedings of the 16th Viking Congress, ReykjavÃk and Reykholt, 16-23 August 2009. Sigmundsson, S., Holt, A., Sigurðsson, G., Ólafsson, G. & Vesteinsson, O. ReykjavÃk: University of Iceland Press. 290-309.
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Bond, J.M., Dockrill, S.J., Outram, Z., Batey, C.E., Summers, J., Friel, R., Brown, L.D., Campbell, E., Cussans, J., Cook, G., Legg, R., Marshall, W., McDonnell, J.G., Mustchin, A., Church, M.J., Hamlet, L.E. & Simpson, I.A. (2013). Excavations at Hamar and Underhoull. In Viking Unst: Excavation and Survey in Northern Shetland 2006-2010. Turner, V.E., Bond, J.M. & Larsen, A.-C. Shetland Heritage Publications. 123-179.
