Two researchers from the UHI Archaeology Institute are bound for Norway after being awarded funding to participate in an international project investigating climate deterioration in prehistory.
Zooarchaeologist Professor Ingrid Mainland and environmental archaeologist Associate Professor Scott Timpany are among the 15 academics involved in the Climate, Crops and Crisis project.
Led by Dr Rosie Bishop, of the University of Stavanger, it includes participants from Norway and the UK (Universities of Oxford, St Andrews, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Southampton and Leeds).
The project will explore how resilient prehistoric farmers were to climate deterioration during the 4th to 1st millennium BC.
It is focusing specifically on two areas with similar climatic but contrasting cultural and agricultural histories – Northern Scotland and Southern Norway.
By integrating data from different disciplines, the goal is to better understand human adaptations to climate in the archaeological record.
Climate, Crops and Crisis is funded by the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters – an independent research foundation funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research.
