Megan Hicks
City University of New York
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World Archaeology | 2015
Karin Margarita Frei; Ashley N. Coutu; Konrad Smiarowski; Ramona Harrison; Christian K. Madsen; Jette Arneborg; Robert Frei; Gardar Guðmundsson; Søren M. Sindbæk; James Woollett; Steven Hartman; Megan Hicks; Thomas H. McGovern
Abstract Walrus-tusk ivory and walrus-hide rope were highly desired goods in Viking Age north-west Europe. New finds of walrus bone and ivory in early Viking Age contexts in Iceland are concentrated in the south-west, and suggest extensive exploitation of nearby walrus for meat, hide and ivory during the first century of settlement. In Greenland, archaeofauna suggest a very different specialized long-distance hunting of the much larger walrus populations in the Disko Bay area that brought mainly ivory to the settlement areas and eventually to European markets. New lead isotopic analysis of archaeological walrus ivory and bone from Greenland and Iceland offers a tool for identifying possible source regions of walrus ivory during the early Middle Ages. This opens possibilities for assessing the development and relative importance of hunting grounds from the point of view of exported products.
The Holocene | 2015
Seth Brewington; Megan Hicks; Ágústa Edwald; Árni Einarsson; Kesara Anamthawat-Jónsson; Gordon Cook; Philippa L. Ascough; Kerry L. Sayle; Símun V. Arge; Mike J. Church; Julie M. Bond; Steve J. Dockrill; Adolf Friðriksson; George Hambrecht; Árni Daníel Júlíusson; Vidar Hreinsson; Steven Hartman; Konrad Smiarowski; Ramona Harrison; Tom H. McGovern
The offshore islands of the North Atlantic were among some of the last settled places on earth, with humans reaching the Faroes and Iceland in the late Iron Age and Viking period. While older accounts emphasizing deforestation and soil erosion have presented this story of island colonization as yet another social–ecological disaster, recent archaeological and paleoenvironmental research combined with environmental history, environmental humanities, and bioscience is providing a more complex understanding of long-term human ecodynamics in these northern islands. An ongoing interdisciplinary investigation of the management of domestic pigs and wild bird populations in Faroes and Iceland is presented as an example of sustained resource management using local and traditional knowledge to create structures for successful wild fowl management on the millennial scale.
Archive | 2010
Megan Hicks
Archive | 2017
Konrad Smiarowski; Ramona Harrison; Seth Brewington; Megan Hicks; Frank Feeley; Céline Dupont-Hébert; Brenda Prehal; George Hambrecht; James Woollett; Thomas H. McGovern
Archive | 2015
Megan Hicks; Árni Einarsson; Kesara Anamthawat-Jónsson; Ágústa Edwald; Ægir Thór Thórsson; Thomas H. McGovern
The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology | 2018
Megan Hicks; Árni Daníel Júlíusson; Ragnhildur Sigurðardóttir; Astrid Ogilvie; Viðar Hreinsson
Quaternary International | 2018
George Hambrecht; Cecillia Anderung; Seth Brewington; Andrew J. Dugmore; Ragnar Edvardsson; Francis Feeley; Kevin Gibbons; Ramona Harrison; Megan Hicks; Rowan Jackson; Guðbjörg Ásta Ólafsdóttir; Marcy Rockman; Konrad Smiarowski; Richard Streeter; Vicki Szabo; Thomas H. McGovern
The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology | 2017
Megan Hicks; Viðar Hreinsson; Árni Daníel Júlíusson; Astrid Ogilvie; Ragnhildur Sigurðardóttir
Developments in earth surface processes | 2016
R. Sigurðardóttir; A.E.J. Ogilvie; Á.D. Júlíusson; V. Hreinsson; Megan Hicks
The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology | 2015
Megan Hicks; Árni Einarsson; Kesara Anamthawat-Jónsson; Ágústa Edwald; Thomas H. McGovern