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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

In press                McGovern, T.H., Gestsdóttir, H. Brewington, S.D., Harrison, R., Hicks, M., Smiarowski, K., and Woollett, J.  Medieval Climate Impact and Human Response: An Archaeofauna circa 1300 AD from Hofstaðir in Mývatnssveit, N Iceland. Journal of the North Atlantic.

 

In press                Hambrecht, G., Anderung, C., Brewington, S., Dugmore, A., Edvardsson, R., Feeley, F., Gibbons, K., Harrison, R., Hicks, M., Jacksond, R., Ólafsdóttir, G.Á., Rockman, M., Smiarowski, K., Streeter, R., Szabo, V., and McGovern, T.  Archaeological sites as Distributed Long-term Observing Networks of the Past (DONOP). Quaternary International. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2018.04.016.

 

2016                       Nelson, M.C., Ingram, S.E., Dugmore, A.J., Streeter, R., Peeples, M.A., McGovern, T.H., Hegmon, M., Arneborg, J., Kintigh, K.W., Brewington, S., Spielmann, K.A., Simpson, I.A., Strawhacker, C., Comeau, L.E.L., Torvinen, A., Madsen, C.K., Hambrecht, G., and Smiarowski, K. Climate Challenges, Vulnerabilities, and Food Security. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113(2):298-303. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1506494113.

 

2015                       Brewington, S., Hicks, M., Edwald, Á., Einarsson, Á., Anamthawat-Jónsson, K., Cook, G., Ascough, P., Sayle, L., Arge, S.V., Church, M., Bond, J., Dockrill, S., Friðriksson, A., Hambrecht, G., Juliusson, A.D., Hreinsson, V., Hartman, S., Smiarowski, K., Harrison, R., and McGovern, T.H. Islands of Change vs. Islands of Disaster: Managing Pigs and Birds in the Anthropocene of the North Atlantic. The Holocene 25(10):1676-1684.

 

2009                       Arge, S.V., Church, M.J., and Brewington, S.D. Pigs in the Faroe Islands: An Ancient Facet of the Islands’ Paleoeconomy. Journal of the North Atlantic 2:1-14.

 

2005                       Church, M. J., Arge, S.V., Brewington, S.D., McGovern, T.H., Woollett, J.H., Perdikaris, S., Lawson, I.T., Cook, G.T., Amundsen, C., Harrison, R., Krivogorskaya, Y., and Dunbar, E.  Puffins, Pigs, Cod, and Barley: Palaeoeconomy at Undir Junkarinsfløtti, Sandoy, Faroe Islands. Environmental Archaeology 10:179-197.

 

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

In press                McGovern, T.H., Hambrecht, G., Brewington, S., Feeley, F., Harrison, R., Hicks, M., Smiarowski, K., and Woollett, J.  Too Many Bones: Data Management and the NABONE Experience. In Zooarchaeological and Archaeological Studies in Honor of Brian Hesse’s Contributions to the Field, eds. Lev-Tov, J. Gilbert, A. and Hesse P, PP, 29-42. Bioarchaeology Series (series editor Sarah Kansa), Lockwood Press, Atlanta.

 

2017                       Brewington, S.D.  Achieving Sustainability in the Faroe Islands. In The Give and Take of Sustainability: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives on Tradeoffs, ed. Hegmon, M, pp. 222-243. New Directions in Sustainability and Society, series eds. Yoffee, N. and Boone, C. Cambridge University Press.

 

2017                       McGovern, T.H., Smiarowski, K., Hambrecht, G., Brewington, S., Harrison, R., Hicks, M., Feeley, F., Dupont-Herbert, C., Prehal, B., and Woollett, J.  Zooarchaeology of the Scandinavian Settlements in Iceland and Greenland: Diverging Pathways. In Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology, ed. Albarella, U., pp. 147-163. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

 

2016                       Brewington, S.D.  The Social Costs of Resilience: An Example from the Faroe Islands. In The Archaeology of the Human Experience, ed. Hegmon, M., pp. 95-105. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, No. 27.  American Anthropological Association, Arlington.

 

2008                       Brewington, S.D. and McGovern, T.H.  Plentiful Puffins: Zooarchaeological Evidence for Early Seabird Exploitation in the Faroe Islands. In Símunarbók: Heiðursrit til Símun V. Arge á 60 ára Degnum, eds. Michelsen, H. and Paulsen, C., pp. 73-80. Fróðskapur. Faroe University Press, Torshavn, Faroe Islands.

 

2007                       Perdikaris, S. Hambrecht, G., Brewington, S.D., and McGovern, T.H.  Across the Fish Event Horizon: A Comparative Approach. In The Role of Fish in Ancient Times, ed. Huster Plogmann, H., pp. 51-62. Rahden, Westphalia: Verlag Marie Leidorf.

 

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

2014                       Brewington, S.D.  The Key Role of Wild Resources in the Viking-Age to Late-Norse Palaeoeconomy of the Faroe Islands: The Zooarchaeological Evidence from Undir Junkarinsfløtti, Sandoy. In Climates of Change: The Shifting Environments of Archaeology, eds. Lacey, S., Tremain, C. and Sawyer, M., pp. 297-306. Publication of the 44th Annual Chacmool Conference, Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary.

 

2010                       Guðmundsson, G., Brewington, S.D., McGovern, T.H., and Petersen, Æ.  A Catalogue of Bird Bones: An Exercise in Semantic Web Practice. In Tools for Identifying Biodiversity: Progress and Problems. Proceedings of the International Congress, Paris, September 20-22, 2010, eds. Nimis, P.L. and Lebbe, R.V., pp. 171-175. Trieste, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste.

 

Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

2013                       Brewington, S.D.  The Social Costs of Sustainability in the Faroe Islands. The SAA Archaeological Record 13(5):24-27.

 

Unpublished Technical Reports (most available at http://goo.gl/IG7WWD)

2012                       Brewington, S.D.  Report on the Analysis of Archaeofauna from the 2006 & 2007 Excavations at Á Sondum (SNR), Sandoy, Faroe Islands. NORSEC Zooarchaeology Laboratories Report No. 61. CUNY Northern Science and Education Center, New York.

 

2011                       Brewington, S.D.  Report: Analysis of Faunal Remains from 2011 Excavations at Broo Site II, S. Mainland, Shetland. NORSEC Zooarchaeology Laboratory Report No. 60. CUNY Northern Science and Education Center, New York.

 

2011                       Brewington, S.D.  Fourth Interim Report on Analysis of Archaeofauna from Undir Junkarinsfløtti, Sandoy, Faroe Islands. NORSEC Zooarchaeology Laboratory Report No. 56. CUNY Northern Science and Education Center, New York.

 

2010                       Brewington, S.D.  Report: Analysis of Animal Bones Recovered During 2010 Excavations at Ingiríðarstaðir (ING), N. Iceland. NORSEC Zooarchaeology Laboratory Report No. 51.  CUNY Northern Science and Education Center, New York.

 

2010                       Brewington, S., Harrison, R., and McGovern, T.H.  Report of Analysis of Archaeofauna from 2009 Excavation of Dettifoss (DET), Iceland. NORSEC Zooarchaeology Laboratory Report No. 47.  CUNY Northern Science and Education Center, New York.

 

2010                       Brewington, S.D.  Third Interim Report on Analysis of Archaeofauna from Undir Junkarinsfløtti, Sandoy, Faroe Islands. NORSEC Zooarchaeology Laboratory Report No. 46.  CUNY Northern Science and Education Center, New York.

 

2006                       Brewington, S.D.  Interim Report on Archaeofauna from Undir Junkarinsfløtti, Sandoy, Faroe Islands. NORSEC Zooarchaeology Laboratory Report No. 31.  CUNY Northern Science and Education Center, New York.

 

2006                       McGovern, T., Harrison, R., Brewington, S.D., and Kuchar, P.  Report of Archaeofauna from Undir Sandmúla and Undir Bálabrekku, Bárðdælahreppur, N. Iceland. NORSEC Zooarchaeology Laboratory Reports No. 29. CUNY Northern Science and Education Center, New York.

 

2004                       Brewington, S.D., Harrison, R., Amundsen, C., and McGovern, T.H.  An Early 13th C. Archaeofauna from Steinbogi, Mývatn District, N. Iceland. NORSEC Zooarchaeology Laboratory Report No. 11. CUNY Northern Science and Education Center, New York.

 

2004                       McGovern, T.H., Brewington, S.D., Perdikaris, S., and Amundsen, C.  Animal Bones from Sondum (27012), Sandoy, Faroe Islands, 2000 Season Collection. NORSEC Zooarchaeology Laboratory Reports No. 23. CUNY Northern Science and Education Center, New York.

 

2004                       Perdikaris, S., Brown, M., and Brewington, S.D.  Preliminary Report on Excavation and Site Survey Work in Antigua, West Indies. NORSEC Laboratory Report No. 24. CUNY Northern Science and Education Center, New York.

 

2003                       Harrison, R., Brewington, S.D., Woollett, J., and McGovern, T.H.  Interim Report of Animal Bones from the 2003 Excavations at Gásir, Eyjafjörður, N. Iceland. CUNY Northern Science and Education Center, New York.