Archaeology Research

Dr Kenny Brophy from Archaeology at the University of Glasgow is currently in Oslo, Norway after being invited to take part in an international project investigating climate deterioration and farming resilience in prehistory. 

He is researching the archaeological evidence for prehistoric farming across four millennia in Atlantic and northern Scotland, working as part of a team of over 15 researchers including archaeozoologists, pollen experts, environmental archaeologists and geographers, and palaeobotanists. His results will be compared with evidence from southern Norway in prehistory and feed into data gathered across the team over the course of the next year. 

The project is led by Dr Rosie Bishop, of the University of Stavanger, with participants from Norway and the UK (Universities of Oxford, St Andrews, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Southampton and Leeds).

The project aims to facilitate innovative interdisciplinary dialogue to determine the best methods for identifying agricultural adaptation, resilience and vulnerability to climate change in the archaeological record. Understanding how humans adapted to change in the past is vital as we face an uncertain climatic future. 

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.

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First published: 13 September 2024