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Environmental DNA Reveals Reykjavík’s Human and Ecological History

2025-10-08

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<h4>Summary</h4> Iceland was among the last large islands settled by humans, with colonization (Landnám) in the late 9th century CE (Common Era) and is often portrayed as an ecological disaster driven by the Norse settlers. Here, we revisit this narrative through environmental DNA (eDNA) and multiproxy analyses of sediment cores from Lake Tjörnin in central Reykjavík, one of Iceland’s earliest and longest-occupie...

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Literature Corpus work: b5190468-ef7a-5216-9896-6bc0b66de0fc
DOI: 10.1101/2025.10.08.681091

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