The Vikings were not the first colonizers of the Faroe Islands

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Church, Mike J.¹  Arge, Simun V.²  Edwards, Kevin J.^3,4  Ascough, Philippa L.⁵  Bond, Julie M.⁶  Cook, Gordon T.⁵  Dockrill, Steve J.⁶  Dugmore, Andrew J.⁷  McGovern, Thomas H.⁸  Nesbitt, Claire¹  Simpson, Ian A.⁹ 

[1] Univ Durham, Dept Archaeol, Durham DH1 3LE, England

[2] Foroya Fornminnissavn, Torshavn, Faroe Islands, Denmark

[3] Univ Aberdeen, Sch Geosci, Dept Geog & Environm, Aberdeen AB9 1FX, Scotland

[4] Univ Aberdeen, Sch Geosci, Dept Archaeol, Aberdeen AB9 1FX, Scotland

[5] SUERC, E Kilbride G75 0QF, Lanark, Scotland

[6] Univ Bradford, AGES, Bradford BD7 1DP, W Yorkshire, England

[7] Univ Edinburgh, Sch GeoSci, Inst Geog, Edinburgh EH8 9XP, Midlothian, Scotland

[8] CUNY Hunter Coll, Dept Anthropol, New York, NY 10021 USA

[9] Univ Stirling, Sch Nat Sci, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland

关键词: Faroe Islands;    Earliest human settlement;    C-14 Dating;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.06.011

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

We report on the earliest archaeological evidence from the Faroe Islands, placing human colonization in the 4th-6th centuries AD, at least 300-500 years earlier than previously demonstrated archaeologically. The evidence consists of an extensive wind-blown sand deposit containing patches of burnt peat ash of anthropogenic origin. Samples of carbonised barley grains from two of these ash patches produced C-14 dates of two pre-Viking phases within the 4th-6th and late 6th-8th centuries AD. A re-evaluation is required of the nature, scale and timing of the human colonization of the Faroes and the wider North Atlantic region. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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