Rousay, Orkney: Gateway to the Atlantic
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| Parent Project Title: | Orkney: Gateway to the Atlantic |
Project Details | |
| Title: | Rousay, Orkney: Gateway to the Atlantic |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=141 |
| Abstract: | This project forms part of the Orkney Gateway to the Atlantic project. The core aim of this research initiative is to inform on sustainability and reliance strategies in the past, investigating how people (and society) reacted and adapted to climatic and environmental change over time. Due to the northerly position of Orkney, the islands have shorter growing seasons and a degree of marginality, which offers a remarkable opportunity to study the long-term effects of climate change and how people survived and adapted, from the first farmers over 5,000 years ago through to the clearances in the 19th century. As well as adaptation and sustainability, this long time frame provides the potential to study cultural changes as a result of contact and trade.
This research initiative is linked to a wider research agenda investigating these themes across the North Atlantic by fellow researchers within the North Atlantic Biocultural Organisation (NABO).
The field school was designed as a research programme. The majority of sites targeted for study are coastal as Orkney has a serious and growing problem of rising sea level and coastal erosion. The two main sites examined so far are both suffering from the effects of coastal erosion. These are the broch mound at Brough or South Howe, and the Knowe of Swandro. Both sites have enormous research potential, providing important archaeological and scientific data that might be used to study how people in the past confronted the marginality of these northern islands and how this changed over time with fluctuating environmental/climatic parameters. |
| Keywords: | sustainability, reliance, multiperiod, coastal erosion |
| Sponsors/Funders: | University of Broadford |
| Orkney College (UHI) | |
| CUNY | |
| Orkney Islands Council | |
| Country: | Scotland |
| Region: | Orkney |
| Project Start Year: | 2009 |
| Projected End Year: | 2020 |
Account Owner | |
| Contact: | Stephen Dockrill |
| Institution: | University of Bradford |
| Postal Address: | Archaeological Sciences
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| Post Code: | BD7 1DP |
| Website: | http://www.brad.ac.uk/AGES/Research/index.php/Staff/MrSteveDockrill?list=AGES.Staff |
| Email: | s.j.dockrill@bradford.ac.uk |
Project Collaborators | |
| Name: | Julie Bond |
| Institution: | Archaeological, Geographical and Environmental Sciences, University of Bradford |
| Address: | Bradford, West Yorkshire |
| Postcode: | BD7 1DP |
| Country: | UK |
| Phone: | + 44 (0)1274 233534 |
| Email: | J.M.Bond@Bradford.ac.uk |
| Name: | Jane Downes |
| Institution: | Orkney College |
| Address: | Orkney College UHI Kirkwall Orkney |
| Postcode: | KW15 1LX |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Email: | jane.downes@orkney.uhi.ac.uk |
| Name: | Julie Gibson |
| Institution: | Orkney College |
| Address: | Orkney College UHI Kirkwall Orkney |
| Postcode: | KW15 1LX |
| Name: | Ingrid Mainland |
| Institution: | Orkney College |
| Address: | Orkney College Kirkwall Orkney |
| Postcode: | KW15 1LX |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Email: | ingrid.mainland@orkney.uhi.ac.uk |
| Name: | Sophia Perdikaris |
| Institution: | Brooklyn College, HERC and the CUNY Graduate Center |
| Address: | Dept. of Anthropology and Archaeology, 2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn |
| Postcode: | NY 11210 |
| Country: | USA |
| Phone: | + 1(718) 951-4192 |
| Email: | sophiap@brooklyn.cuny.edu |
Project Content
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Orkneyjar: Rousay 2010 Fieldschool (Coastal erosion helping fill in the historical gaps) The Orkneyjar website has details of the 2010 Rousay fieldschool, as well as other archaeological activity on Orkney. |
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Rousay, Orkney: Nabo Fieldschool NABO webpages about the Rousay Fieldschool. |
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Digging for Britain: The Orkney Gateway to the Atlantic project The Digging for Britain website has details on Rousay project. Details on this and other British archaeological projects, including videos can be found here. |
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Digging for Britain YouTube Channel Video diaries on archaeological excavations at the Rousay fieldschool and other digs in the UK can be found on the 360 Production website. |
North East Coordinates: 59.82273°N, 1.66992°W
South West Coordinates: 58.35563°N, 4.74609°W