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PI: Dr. Gerry Bigelow
Project Lead: Matthew Bampton
Funding Source: NSF/PLR 1026911
Location: Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK
Dates: 2011-05-24 to 2013-04-16
U-009 - Shetland Islands Climate and Settlement Project
PI: Dr. Gerry Bigelow
Project Lead: Matthew Bampton
Funding Source: NSF/PLR 1026911
Location: Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK
Dates: 2011-05-24 to 2013-04-16
Project Summary
The Shetland Islands Climate and Settlement Project is a multidisciplinary and international research effort to explore severe and abrupt transformations of northern, coastal environments, and the ways in which human populations have adapted to these environmental crises and sometimes contributed to them. TLS and GPS surveys conducted in Quendale Valley on the Main Island in May-June of 2011 and 2012 were used to survey and image natural and man-made features that may provide information about past climatic conditions and events, as well as information on past settlements in the valley.
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Related Publications
- Matthew Bampton, Alice Kelley, Joseph Kelley, Michael Jones, Gerald Bigelow (2017), Little Ice Age catastrophic storms and the destruction of a Shetland Island community, Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 87, p. 17-29, doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2017.08.003