Congrès, colloques, réunions
du 1er au 3 avril 2016
Kirkwall, Orkney
Archaeology Institute, University of the Highlands and Islands
Association for Environmental Archaeology conference 2016
(with meetings of the Professional Zooarchaeology Working Group and the Archaeomalacology Working Group)
The notion of the island as a laboratory, as a world in microcosm with well-defined boundaries, is an appealing and long established cliché. For almost two centuries, we have explored the distinctive biological and historical trajectories of different islands, and have identified a variety of ‘island effects’; on plants and animals and on human communities. Such work demonstrates that many islands offered distinctive potentials (and barriers) for social and ecological development. [...]