Staff profile

RESEARCH THEMES My key research theme is the investigation of the interaction between humans and the environment in the North Atlantic islands (including Atlantic Scottish islands, Faroes, Iceland and Greenland) through reconstructing and analyzing 1) trajectories of environmental change 2) the impact of human settlement on palaeoenvironments 3) palaeoeconomies in different island settings 4) cultural adjustments to marginality RESEARCH STUDENTS I would be pleased to supervise research post-graduate students on the interaction between humans and the environment in the North Atlantic islands (including Atlantic Scottish islands, Faroes, Iceland and Greenland) with specific reference to environmental archaeology. Please email me about potential topics. SELECTED CURRENT PROJECTS: ‘Landscapes circa landnám’. International, multi-disciplinary project investigating the human / environment interaction in the North Atlantic during the Norse period. I held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Geography, University of Edinburgh as part of this project (2002-2005) and was an Associated Researcher (2005-2007), concentrating on environmental archaeology, geochronology, geomorphology and palaeolimnology. Leverhulme Trust (UK) funded. ‘Heart of the Atlantic: cultural landscapes of Sandoy, Faroe Islands’. Co-director of this multi-disciplinary project investigating the changing cultural and natural landscapes on the island of Sandoy, from first settlement to modern time. Archaeological investigations are focusing on the extensive excavations at Undir Junkarinsflötti and Á Sondum in the village of Sandur. Principal funding bodies: Anadarko (Faroes), Faroese Research Council (Faroes), Leverhulme Trust (UK) and National Science Foundation (US). Charcoal production in Norse and Medieval Iceland. This project is investigating charcoal production in two areas of Iceland (Mývatnsveit in north-east Iceland and the Markafljot valley in southern Iceland), to evaluate the role of charcoal production in landnám deforestation, the impact on the environment and potential management of woodland during the settlement of Iceland. The project involves archaeological survey and excavation of charcoal production pits, within a geomorphological and chronological context provided by tephrochronology and radiocarbon. Principal funding bodies: Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (UK) and Leverhulme Trust (UK). Excavations at Brattahlið, Qassiarsuk, southern Greenland. Co-director of excavations at this internationally important site during the summers of 2005 and 2006. Principal funding bodies: Leverhulme Trust (UK) and National Science Foundation (US). ‘Uig Landscape Project’, Lewis, Western Isles (UK). Co-directed four seasons of landscape survey and excavation of four archaeological sites across the Uig Peninsula, Lewis from 1995 to 1998. Post-excavation nearing completion. Principal funding bodies: Historic Scotland (UK), University of Edinburgh (UK), Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (UK), Uig Estate and the Gearing family (UK).

• Environmental archaeology of the North Atlantic islands including the Western Isles of Scotland, Faroes, Iceland and Greenland
• Geochronological applications, specifically radiocarbon dating and tephrochronology, in the North Atlantic islands
• Mineral magnetic applications on archaeological and palaeoenvironmental sites
• Geomorphology and palaeolimnology in relation to the human / environment interaction in the North Atlantic islands
• Archaeobotany of Scotland and the North Atlantic islands
• Experimental archaeobotany

• Bioarchaeology
• Northern Communities

• Charcoal production in the North Atlantic Islands
• Experimental archaeobotany and geoarchaeology
• Heart of the Atlantic: cultural landscapes of Sandoy, Faroe Islands
• Human impact on Norse landscapes in the North Atlantic
• Uig Landscape Project

• Charcoal production in the North Atlantic Islands
• Experimental archaeobotany and geoarchaeology
• Heart of the Atlantic: cultural landscapes of Sandoy, Faroe Islands
• Human impact on Norse landscapes in the North Atlantic
• North Atlantic Biocultural Organisation (NABO) web pages
• Uig Landscape Project

• 2016: Member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland:
• 2012: Senior Collaborating Scientist on NSF (US) Project 'Comparative island ecodynamics in the North Atlantic':
• 2008: Adjunct Professor in Graduate School of Anthropology - City University New York, US:
• 2007: Member of Editorial Board for Journal of the North Atlantic:
• 2007: Senior Collaborating Scientist on NSF (US) IPY Project 'Long Term Human Ecodynamics in the Norse North Atlantic: cases of sustainability, survival, and collapse.':
• 2007: Senior Collaborating Scientist, MARENA International Polar Year research cluster:
• 2006: Honorary Research Fellow, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh:
• 2002: Leverhulme Research Fellow in School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh:

Chapter in book

• Snape, L & Church, M J (2019). Experimental magnetic susceptibility signatures for identifying hearths in the Mesolithic period in North East England, UK. In Wild Things 2.0: Further Advances in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Research. Walker, J & Klinnick, D Oxbow. 55-80.
• Bond, J.M., Dockrill, S.J., Outram, Z., Batey, C.E., Summers, J., Friel, R., Brown, L.D., Campbell, E., Cussans, J., Cook, G., Legg, R., Marshall, W., McDonnell, J.G., Mustchin, A., Church, M.J., Hamlet, L.E. & Simpson, I.A. (2013). Excavations at Hamar and Underhoull. In Viking Unst: Excavation and Survey in Northern Shetland 2006-2010. Turner, V.E., Bond, J.M. & Larsen, A.-C. Shetland Heritage Publications. 123-179.
• McGovern, T. H., Arge, S., Arneborg, J., Ascough, P., Casely, A., Church, M. J., Cook, G., Dugmore, A., Edvardsson, R., Einarsson, A., Fridriksson, A., Hambrecht, G., Harrison, R., Ingason, U., Johannesdottir, S., Keller, C., Lawson, I., Lucas, G., Koch Madsen, C., Newton, A., Ogilvie, A., Perdikaris, S., Roberts, H., Simpson, I., Smiarowski, K., Thomson, A. & Vesteinsson, 0. (2011). Vikings in the International Polar Year 2007-09: Still bloodthirsty but also ecodynamic and educational. In Viking settlements and Viking society: Papers from the Proceedings of the 16th Viking Congress, Reykjavík and Reykholt, 16-23 August 2009. Sigmundsson, S., Holt, A., Sigurðsson, G., Ólafsson, G. & Vesteinsson, O. Reykjavík: University of Iceland Press. 290-309.
• Church, M. J., Duarte, L., Edwards, K. J., Lawson, I. T. & Newton, A. J. (2010). The palaeoenvironment of Mývatnssveit: Vegetation. In Hofstaðir: Excavations of a Viking Age feasting hall in north-eastern Iceland. Lucas, G. Reykjavík: Institute of Archaeology. 32-38.
• Church, M J (2006). Environmental analyses from Northton. In Excavations at Northton, Isle of Harris. Simpson, D D A, Murphy, E M & Gregory, R A Oxford: Archaeopress. BAR British Series 408: 26-40.
• Church, M J & Cressey, M (2006). Carbonized plant macrofossils and charcoal. In Anatomy of an Iron Age Roundhouse: The Cnip wheelhouse excavations, Lewis. Armit, IA Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. 182-194.
• Ceron-Carrasco, R, Church, M J & Thoms, J (2005). Towards an economic landscape of the Bhaltos Peninsula, Lewis during the Mid to Late Iron Age. In Tall stories? 2 millennia of brochs. Turner, V, Nicholson, R A, Dockrill, S J & Bond, J M Lerwick: Shetland Amenity Trust. 221-234.
• Church, M J & Peters, C (2004). Application of mineral magnetism in Atlantic Scotland archaeology 2: magnetic susceptibility and archaeobotanical taphonomy in West Lewis, Scotland. In Atlantic connections and adaptations: economies, environments and subsistence in lands bordering the North Atlantic. Housley, R A & Coles, G M Oxford: Oxbow Books. 99-115.
• Peters, C, Church, M J & Batt, C (2004). Application of mineral magnetism in Atlantic Scotland archaeology 1: techniques, magnetic enhancement and the identification of fuel sources. In Atlantic connections and adaptations: economies, environments and subsistence in lands bordering the North Atlantic. Housley R A & Coles G M Oxford: Oxbow Books. 86-95.
• Church, M J (2002). The archaeological and archaeobotanical implications of a destruction layer in Dun Bharabhat, Lewis. In In the shadow of the brochs the Iron Age in Scotland. Ballin-Smith, B & Banks, I Stroud: Tempus. 67-75.
• Church, M J & Peters, C (2000). Sedimentary analysis of soil samples. In Dun Bharabhat, Cnip: An Iron Age settlement in West Lewis. Harding, D W & Dixon, T N Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh. 114-119.
• Church, M J (2000). Carbonised plant macrofossils and charcoal. In Dun Bharabhat, Cnip an Iron Age settlement in west Lewis. Harding, D W & Dixon, T N Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh. 1 Structures and material culture: 120-130.

Conference Paper

• Mairs, K-A, Church, M J, Dugmore, A J & Sveinbjarnardóttir, G (2006), Degrees of success: evaluating the environmental impacts of long term settlement in south Iceland, in Arneborg, J & Grønnow, B eds, Dynamics of Northern Societies - Proceedings of the SILA/NABO-conference on Arctic and North Atlantic Archaeology. Aarhus University Press, Copenhagen, 365-373.
• Dugmore, A J, Church, M J, Mairs, K-A, McGovern, T H, Newton, A J & Sveinbjarnardóttir, G (2006), An over-optimistic pioneer fringe? Environmental perspectives on medieval settlement abandonment in Þórsmörk, south Iceland, in Arneborg, J & Grønnow, B eds, Dynamics of Northern Societies - Proceedings of the SILA/NABO-conference on Arctic and North Atlantic Archaeology. Aarhus University Press, Copenhagen, 335-345.
• Sveinbjarnardóttir, G, Mairs, K-A, Church, M J & Dugmore, A J (2006), Settlement history, land holdings and landscape change, Eyjafjallahreppur, Iceland, in Arneborg, J & Grønnow, B eds, Dynamics of Northern Societies - Proceedings of the SILA/NABO-conference on Arctic and North Atlantic Archaeology. Aarhus University Press, Copenhagen, 323-333.
• Lawson, I T, Gathorne-Hardy, F J, Church, M J, Einarsson, A, Edwards, K J, Perdikaris, S, McGovern, T H, Amundsen, C & Sveinbjarnardóttir, G (2006), Human impact on freshwater environments in Norse and early medieval Iceland, in Arneborg, J & Grønnow, B eds, Dynamics of Northern Societies - Proceedings of the SILA/NABO-conference on Arctic and North Atlantic Archaeology. Aarhus University Press, Copenhagen, 375-382.
• Church, M J & Burgess, C P G (2003), Assessment survey: Lewis, in Dawson, T eds, Coastal archaeology and erosion in Scotland. Edinburgh, Historic Scotland, Edinburgh, 55-64.

Journal Article

• Bishop, R.R., Kubiak-Martens, L., Warren, G.M. & Church, M.J. (2023). Getting to the root of the problem: New evidence for the use of plant root foods in Mesolithic hunter-gatherer subsistence in Europe. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 32(1): 65-83.
• Bishop, R.R. Gröcke, D.R., Ralston, I.B.M., Clarke, D.V., Lee, D. Shepherd, A. Thomas, A., Rowley-Conwy, P.A. & Church, M.J. (2022). Scotland’s first farmers: new insights into early farming practices in north-west Europe. Antiquity 96(389).
• Gröcke, Darren R., Treasure, Edward R., Lester, Jonathan J., Gron, Kurt J. & Church, Mike J. (2021). Effects of marine biofertilisation on Celtic bean carbon, nitrogen and sulphur isotopes: implications for reconstructing past diet and farming practices. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 35(5): e8985.
• Gron, K.J., Larsson, M., Gröcke, D.R., Andersen, N.H., Andreasen, M.H., Bech, J.-H., Henriksen, P.S., Hilton, R.G., Jessen, M.D., Møller, N.A., Nielsen, F.O., Nielsen, P.O., Pihl, A., Sørensen, L., Westphal, J., Rowley-Conwy, P. & Church, M.J. (2021). Archaeological cereals as an isotope record of long-term soil health and anthropogenic amendment in southern Scandinavia. Quaternary Science Reviews 253: 106762.
• Frantz, Laurent A. F., Haile, James, Lin, Audrey T., Scheu, Amelie, Geörg, Christina, Benecke, Norbert, Alexander, Michelle, Linderholm, Anna, Mullin, Victoria E., Daly, Kevin G., Battista, Vincent M., Price, Max, Gron, Kurt J., Alexandri, Panoraia, Arbogast, Rose-Marie, Arbuckle, Benjamin, Bӑlӑşescu, Adrian, Barnett, Ross, Bartosiewicz, László, Baryshnikov, Gennady, Bonsall, Clive, Borić, Dušan, Boroneanţ, Adina, Bulatović, Jelena, Çakirlar, Canan, Carretero, José-Miguel, Chapman, John, Church, Mike, Crooijmans, Richard, De Cupere, Bea, Detry, Cleia, Dimitrijevic, Vesna, Dumitraşcu, Valentin, du Plessis, Louis, Edwards, Ceiridwen J., Erek, Cevdet Merih, Erim-Özdoğan, Aslı, Ervynck, Anton, Fulgione, Domenico, Gligor, Mihai, Götherström, Anders, Gourichon, Lionel, Groenen, Martien A.M., Helmer, Daniel, Hongo, Hitomi, Horwitz, Liora K., Irving-Pease, Evan K., Lebrasseur, Ophélie, Lesur, Joséphine, Malone, Caroline, Manaseryan, Ninna, Marciniak, Arkadiusz, Martlew, Holley, Mashkour, Marjan, Matthews, Roger, Matuzeviciute, Giedre Motuzaite, Maziar, Sepideh, Meijaard, Erik, McGovern, Tom, Megens, Hendrik-Jan, Miller, Rebecca, Mohaseb, Azadeh Fatemeh, Orschiedt, Jörg, Orton, David, Papathanasiou, Anastasia, Pearson, Mike Parker, Pinhasi, Ron, Radmanović, Darko, Ricaut, François-Xavier, Richards, Mike, Sabin, Richard, Sarti, Lucia, Schier, Wolfram, Sheikhi, Shiva, Stephan, Elisabeth, Stewart, John R., Stoddart, Simon, Tagliacozzo, Antonio, Tasić, Nenad, Trantalidou, Katerina, Tresset, Anne, Valdiosera, Cristina, van den Hurk, Youri, Van Poucke, Sophie, Vigne, Jean-Denis, Yanevich, Alexander, Zeeb-Lanz, Andrea, Triantafyllidis, Alexandros, Gilbert, M. Thomas P., Schibler, Jörg, Rowley-Conwy, Peter, Zeder, Melinda, Peters, Joris, Cucchi, Thomas, Bradley, Daniel G., Dobney, Keith, Burger, Joachim, Evin, Allowen, Girdland-Flink, Linus & Larson, Greger (2019). Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116(35): 17231-17238.
• Church, M J (2019). 'Carbonised plant macrofossils' in Hunter, 'Context for a carnyx: excavation of a long-lived ritual site at Leitchestown, Deskford, Moray, northeast Scotland'. Archaeological Journal 176(2): 309-313.
• Swindles, G.T., Outram, Z., Batt, C.M., Hamilton, W.D., Church, M.J., Bond, J.M., Watson, E.J., Cook, G.T., Sim, T.G., Newton, A.J. & Dugmore, A.J. (2019). Vikings, peat and settlement abandonment: a multi-method chronological approach from Shetland. Quaternary Science Reviews 210: 211-225.
• Treasure, E.R., Gröcke, D.R., Caseldine, A.E. & Church, M.J (2019). Neolithic farming and wild plant exploitation in western Britain: archaeobotanical and crop stable isotope evidence from Wales (c. 4000–2200 cal BC). Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 85: 193-222.
• Bishop, R. R., Church, M. J., Lawson, I. T., Roucoux, K. H., O’Brien, C., Ranner, H., Heald, A. J. & Flitcroft, C. E. (2018). Deforestation and human agency in the North Atlantic region: Archaeological and palaeoenvironmental evidence from the Western Isles of Scotland. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 84: 145-184.
• Piper, S. F., Bishop, R. R., Rowley-Conwy, P. A., Elliott, L. & Church, M. J. (2018). Fire in the Moor: Mesolithic carbonised remains in riverine deposits at Gleann Mor Barabhais, Lewis, Western Isles of Scotland. Journal of the North Atlantic 35: 1-22.
• Gron, K. J., Gröcke, D. R., Larsson, M., Sørensen, L., Larsson, L., Rowley-Conwy, P. A. & Church, M. J. (2017). Nitrogen isotope evidence for manuring of Early Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture cereals from Stensborg, Sweden. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 14: 575-579.
• Ascough, P.L., Church, M.J. & Cook, G.T. (2017). Marine Radiocarbon Reservoir Effects for the Mesolithic and Medieval periods in the Western Isles of Scotland. Radiocarbon 59(1): 17-31.
• Treasure, E. R. & Church, M. J. (2017). Can't find a pulse? Celtic bean (Vicia faba L.) in British prehistory. Environmental Archaeology 22(2): 113-127.
• Treasure, E. R., Church, M. J. & Gröcke, D. R. (2016). The influence of manuring on stable isotopes (δ13C and δ15N) in Celtic bean (Vicia faba L.): archaeobotanical and palaeodietary implications. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 8(3): 555-562.
• Brewington, S, Hicks, H, Edwald, Á Einarsson, Á, Anamthawat-Jónsson, K, Cook, G Ascough, P, Sayle, K L, Arge, S V, Church, M J, Bond, J, Dockrill, S, Friðriksson, A, Hambrecht, G, Juliusson, A D, Hreinsson, V, Hartman, S, Smiarowski, K, Harrison, R & McGovern, T H (2015). Islands of change vs. islands of disaster: Managing pigs and birds in the Anthropocene of the North Atlantic. The Holocene 25(10): 1676-1684.
• Bishop, R R, Church, M J & Rowley-Conwy, P A (2015). Firewood, food and niche construction: the potential role of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in actively structuring Scotland's woodlands. Quaternary Science Reviews 108: 51-75.
• Bishop, R R, Church, M J & Rowley-Conwy, P A (2014). Seeds, fruits and nuts in the Scottish Mesolithic. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 143: 9-72.
• Ascough, P. L., Church, M. J., Cook, G. T., Einarsson, Á., McGovern, T. H., Dugmore, A. J. & Edwards, K. J. (2014). Stable isotopic (δ13C and δ15N) characterization of key faunal resources from Norse period settlements in North Iceland. Journal of the North Atlantic Special Volume 7: 25-42.
• Sheridan, J. A., Cowie, T., Bradley, R., Church, M. J. Garrow, D., Flint, J., Cook, G. & Naysmith, P. (2014). Radiocarbon dates associated with the Scottish History and Archaeology Department, National Museums Scotland, 2012/13. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, New Series 15: 209-211.
• Church, M. J., Nesbitt, C. & Gilmour, S. M. D. (2014). A special place in the saltings? Survey and excavation of an Iron Age estuarine islet at An Dunan, Lewis, Western Isles. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 143: 157-226.
• Piper, S., Rowley-Conwy, P. & Church, M.J. (2014). Gleann Mor Barabhais. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, New Series 15: 196.
• Vésteinsson, O., Church, M. J., Dugmore, A. J., McGovern, T. H. & Newton, A. J. (2014). Expensive errors or rational choices: the pioneer fringe in Late Viking Age Iceland. European Journal of Post-Classical Archaeologies 4: 39-68.
• Church, M. J. & Rowley-Conwy, P. A. (2013). Pabaigh Mòr. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, New Series 14: 198.
• Bishop, R. R., Church, M. J., Clegg, C., Johnson, L., Piper, S., Rowley-Conwy, P. A. & Snape-Kennedy, L. (2013). Tràigh na Beirigh 2. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, New Series 14: 198-199.
• Snape-Kennedy, L., Church, M. J., Bishop, R. R., Clegg, C., Johnson, L., Piper, S. & Rowley-Conwy, P. A. (2013). Tràigh na Beirigh 9. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, New Series 14: 199.
• Swindles, G T, Galloway, J, Outram, Z, Turner, K, Schofield, J E, Newton, A J, Dugmore, A J Church, M J, Watson, E, Batt, C, Bond, J M, Edwards, K J, Turner, V & Bashford, D (2013). Re-deposited cryptotephra layers in Holocene peats linked to anthropogenic activity. The Holocene 23(10): 1493-1501.
• Bishop, R R, Church, M J, Dugmore, A J, Madsen, C K & Møller, N A (2013). A charcoal-rich horizon at Ø69, Greenland: Evidence for vegetation burning during the Norse landnám? Journal of Archaeological Science 40(11): 3890-3902.
• Nesbitt, C., Church, M. J., Gilmour, S. M. D. & Burgess, C. P. G. (2013). Small-scale evaluation of a Post-Medieval Blackhouse at Bereiro, Lewis, Western Isles of Scotland. Journal of the North Atlantic 22: 1-19.
• Piper, S., Rowley-Conwy, P. A. & Church, M. J. (2013). Gleann Mor Barabhais. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, New Series 14: 190-191.
• Church, M. J., Arge, S. V., Edwards, K. J., Ascough, P. L., Bond, J. M., Cook, G. T., Dockrill, S. J., Dugmore, A. J., McGovern, T. H., Nesbitt, C. & Simpson, I. A. (2013). The Vikings were not the first colonizers of the Faroe Islands. Quaternary Science Reviews 77: 228-232.
• Mellows, A, Barnett, R Dalen, L, Sandoval-Castellanos, E, Linderholm, A, McGovern, T H Church, M J & Larson, G (2012). The impact of past climate change on genetic variation and population connectivity in the Icelandic arctic fox. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279(1747): 4568-4573.
• Ascough, P. L., Church, M. J., Cook, G. T., Dunbar, E., Gestsdóttir, H., McGovern, T. H., Dugmore, A. J., Friðriksson, A. & Edwards, K. J. (2012). Radiocarbon reservoir effects in human bone collagen from northern Iceland. Journal of Archaeological Science 39(7): 2261-2271.
• Church, M J, Bishop, R R, Blake, E, Nesbitt, C, Perri, A, Piper, S, Rowley-Conwy, P A, Snape-Kennedy, L & Walker, J (2012). Tràigh na Beirigh, Uig. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, New Series 13: 190.
• Church, M.J., Bishop, R.R., Blake, E., Nesbitt, C., Perri, A., Piper, S. & Rowley-Conwy, P.A. (2012). Temple Bay, Harris. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, New Series 13: 186.
• Vickers, K, Erlendsson, E, Church, M J, Edwards, K J & Bending, J (2011). 1000 years of environmental change and human impact at Stóra-Mörk, southern Iceland: A multiproxy study of a dynamic and vulnerable landscape. The Holocene 21(6): 979-995.
• Caldwell, D, Gilmour, S & Church, M J (2011). Mealasta, Tigh nan Cailleachan Dubha. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, New Series 12: 194.
• Nesbitt, C., Church, M. J. & Gilmour, S. M. D. (2011). Domestic, industrial, (en)closed? Survey and excavation of a Late Bronze Age / Early Iron Age promontory enclosure at Gob Eirer, Lewis, Western Isles. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 141: 31-74.
• Church, M J, Bishop, R R, Blake, E, Nesbitt, C, Perri, A, Piper, S & Rowley-Conwy, P A (2011). Temple Bay, Harris. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, New Series 12: 187.
• Bishop, R. R., Church, M. J. & Rowley-Conwy, P. A. (2011). Northton, Harris. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, New Series 11: 186.
• Church, M.J., Bishop, R.R., Blake, E., Nesbitt, C., Perri, A., Piper, S. & Rowley-Conwy, P.A. (2011). Tràigh na Beirigh, Uig. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, New Series 12: 194-195.
• Ascough, P L, Cook, G T, Hastie, H, Dunbar, E, Church, M J, Einarsson, Á, McGovern, T H & Dugmore, A J (2011). An Icelandic freshwater radiocarbon reservoir effect: Implications for lacustrine 14C chronologies. The Holocene 21(7): 1073-1080.
• Bishop, R.R., Church, M.J. & Rowley-Conwy, P.A. (2010). Northton, Harris. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, New Series 11: 178.
• Ascough P L, Cook G T, Church M J, Dunbar E, Einarsson Á, McGovern T H, Dugmore A J, Perdikaris S, Hastie H, Friðriksson A & Gestsdóttir H (2010). Temporal and spatial variations in freshwater 14C reservoir effects: Lake Mývatn, northern Iceland. Radiocarbon 52(2-3): 1098-1112.
• Arge, S.V., Church, M.J. & Brewington, S. (2009). Pigs in the Faroe Islands: An ancient facet of the islands’ paleoeconomy. Journal of the North Atlantic 2: 19-32.
• Church, M J & Gillis, R (2009). Palaeoenvironmental analyses (ed.) In Rees, A. The excavation of an Iron Age unenclosed settlement and an Early Historic multiple burial and metalworking area at Hawkhill, Lunan Bay, Angus. Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal 15: 38-45.
• Bishop, R R, Church, M J & Rowley-Conwy, P A (2009). Cereals, fruits and nuts in the Scottish Neolithic. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 139: 47-103.
• Lawson, I T, Edwards, K J, Church, M J, Newton, A J, Cook, G T, Gathorne-Hardy, F J & Dugmore, A J (2008). Human impact on an island ecosystem: pollen data from Sandoy, Faroe Islands. Journal of Biogeography 35(6): 1130-1152.
• Dugmore, A J, Borthwick, D M, Church, M J, Dawson, A, Edwards, K J, Keller, C, Mayewski, P, McGovern, T H, Mairs, K-A & Sveinbjarnardóttir, G (2007). The role of climate in settlement and landscape change in the North Atlantic islands: an assessment of cumulative deviations in high-resolution proxy climate records. Human Ecology 35(2): 169-178.
• Church, M J, Dugmore, A J, Mairs, K-A, Millard, A, Cook, G T, Sveinbjarnardóttir, G, Ascough, P A, Newton, A J & Roucoux, K (2007). Charcoal production during the Norse and early medieval periods in Eyjafjallahreppur, Southern Iceland. Radiocarbon 49(2): 659-672.
• Gathorne-Hardy, F J, Lawson, I T Church, M J, Brooks, S J, Buckland, P C & Edwards, K J (2007). The Chironomidae of Gróthúsvatn, Sandoy, Faroe Islands: climatic and lake phosphorus reconstructions, and the impact of human settlement. The Holocene 17(8): 1259-1264.
• Roucoux, K H, Lawson, I T & Church, M J (2007). Identification of birch woodland in northern Iceland using pollen assemblages. Quaternary Newsletter 112: 39-44.
• Ascough, P.L., Cook, G.T., Church, M.J. Dugmore, A.J., McGovern, T.H., Dunbar, E., Einarsson, Á. Friðriksson, A & Gestsdóttir, H. (2007). Reservoirs and radiocarbon: 14C dating problems in Mývatnssveit, northern Iceland. Radiocarbon 49(2): 947-961.
• McGovern, T H, Vésteinsson, O, Friðriksson, A, Church, M J, Lawson, I T, Simpson, I A, Einarsson, A, Dugmore, A J, Cook, G T, Perdikaris, S, Edwards, K J, Thomson, A M, Adderley, W P, Newton, A J, Lucas, G, Edvardsson, R, Aldred, O & Dunbar, E (2007). Landscapes of settlement in northern Iceland: Historical Ecology of human impact and climate fluctuation on the millennial scale. American Anthropologist 109(1): 27-51.
• Lawson, I T, Church, M J, Edwards, K J, Cook, G T & Dugmore, A J (2007). Peat initiation in the Faroe Islands: climate change, pedogenesis or human impact? Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 98(1): 15-28.
• Church, M J, Peters, C & Batt, C M (2007). Sourcing fire ash on archaeological sites in the Western and Northern Isles of Scotland, using mineral magnetism. Geoarchaeology 22(7): 747-774.
• Lawson, I T, Gathorne-Hardy, F J, Church, M J, Newton, A J, Edwards, K J, Dugmore, A. J & Einarsson, Á. (2007). Environmental impacts of the Norse settlement: palaeoenvironmental data from Mývatnssveit, northern Iceland. Boreas 36(1): 1-19.
• Dugmore, A J, Church, M J, Mairs, K-A, McGovern, T H, Perdikaris, S & Vésteinsson, O (2007). Abandoned farms, volcanic impacts and woodland management: revisiting Þjórsárdalur, the ‘Pompeii of Iceland’. Arctic Anthropology 44(1): 1-11.
• Ascough, P L, Cook, G T, Church, M J, Dugmore, A J, Arge, S V & McGovern, T H (2006). Variability in North Atlantic marine radiocarbon reservoir effects at c.1000 AD. The Holocene 16(1): 131-136.
• Gregory, R A, Murphy, E M, Church, M J, Edwards, K J, Guttmann, E B & Simpson, D D A (2005). Archaeological evidence for the first Mesolithic occupation of the Western Isles of Scotland. The Holocene 15(7): 944-950.
• Church, M J (2005). Carbonized plant macrofossils, in Neighbour, T. Excavation of a Bronze Age kerb cairn at Olcote, Breasclete, near Calanais, Isle of Lewis. Scottish Archaeological Internet Report 13: 51-52.
• Edwards, K J, Borthwick, D, Cook, G T, Dugmore, A J, Mairs, K-A, Church, M J, Simpson, I A & Adderley, W P (2005). A hypothesis-based approach to landscape change in Suðoroy, Faroe Islands. Human Ecology 33(5): 621-650.
• Church, M J (2005). Palaeoenvironmental sampling of the souterrain, in Alexander, D. Redcastle, Lunan Bay, Angus: the excavation of of an Iron Age timber-lined souterrain and a Pictish barrow cemetery. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 135: 53-74.
• Church, M J, Arge, S V, Brewington, S, McGovern, T H, Woollett, J, Perdikaris, S, Lawson, I T, Cook, G T, Amundsen, C, Harrison, R, Krivogorskaya, K & Dunbar, E (2005). Puffins, Pigs, Cod, and Barley: Palaeoeconomy at Undir Junkarinsfløtti, Sandoy, Faroe Islands. Environmental Archaeology 10(2): 179-197.
• Lawson, I T, Church, M J, McGovern, T H, Arge, S V, Woollet, J, Edwards, K J, Gathorne-Hardy, F J, Dugmore, A J, Cook, G, Mairs, K-A, Thomson, A M & Sveinbjarnardóttir, G (2005). Historical ecology on Sandoy, Faroe Islands: palaeoenvironmental and archaeological perspectives. Human Ecology 33(5): 651-684.
• Dugmore, A J, Church, M J, Buckland, P C, Edwards, K J, Lawson, I T, McGovern, T H, Panagiotakopulu, E, Simpson, I A, Skidmore, P & Sveinbjarnardóttir, G (2005). The Norse landnám on the North Atlantic islands: an environmental impact assessment. Polar Record 41(1): 21-37.
• Church, M J (2003). Carbonised plant macrofossils, in Suddaby, I. The Excavation of two Late Bronze Age roundhouses at Ballyprior Beg, Island Magee, County Antrim. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 62: 82-83.
• Peters, C, Thompson, R, Harrison, A & Church, M J (2002). Low temperature magnetic characterisation of fire ash residues. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 27(31): 1355-1361.
• Church, M J (2002). Carbonised plant macrofossils, in Cameron, K. The excavation of Neolithic pits and Iron Age souterrains at Dubton Farm, Brechin, Angus. Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal 8: 51-68.
• Peters, C, Church, M J & Mitchell, C (2001). Investigation of fire ash residues using mineral magnetism. Archaeological Prospection 8(4): 227-237.
• Rees, T & Church, M J (2000). Bronze Age timbers from Creag Ruaidh, Achmore, Isle of Lewis. Northern Studies 35: 133-159.
• Peters, C, Church, M J & Coles, G M (2000). Mineral magnetism and archaeology at Galson on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. Physics and chemistry of the earth. Part A, Solid earth and geodesy 25(5): 455-460.
• Coles, G M, Church, M J, Harding, D W & Inglis, R (1998). Calanais Farm (Uig Parish). Discovery and Excavation in Scotland (1998): 105.
• Church, M J & Gilmour, S (1998). Guinnerso (Uig Parish. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland (1998): 106-107.
• Church, M J, Gilmour, S & Flitcroft, C (1998). Gob Eirer (Uig Parish). Discovery and Excavation in Scotland (1998): 106.
• Burgess, C, Church, M J & Gilmour, S (1998). Bereiro and Tigh a’Bheannaich (Uig Parish). Discovery and Excavation in Scotland (1998): 105.
• Burgess, C, Church, M J, Heald, A & Gilmour, S (1997). Guinnerso (Uig Parish). Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 85-86.
• Burgess, C, Church, M J Flitcroft, C & Gilmour, S (1997). An Dunan (Uig Parish). Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 85.
• Burgess, C, Gilmour, S & Church, M J (1996). Guinnerso (Uig Parish). Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 111-112.
• Burgess, C & Church, M J (1995). Uig Sands to Aird Uig, Isle of Lewis (Uig Parish). Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 111-112.

Report

• Piper, S & Church, M J (2015). Small-Scale Sampling at Tràigh an Teampuill (Temple Bay), Toe Head Peninsula, Northton, Harris, 2012; Data Structure Report. Department of Archaeology, Durham University. Unpublished Data Structure Report: Department of Archaeology, Durham University.
• Bishop, R. R., Church, M. J. & Nesbitt, C. (2012). Archaeological investigations at Northton, Harris, Western Isles, 2011. Data Structure Report. Department of Archaeology. Durham University.
• Nesbitt, C., Church, M. J. & Gilmour, S. M. D. (2012). Data Structure Report of Small-scale sampling at Mealasta, Lewis, Western Isles of Scotland. Unpublished Data Structure Report: Department of Archaeology, Durham University.
• Blake, E, Church, M J & Nesbitt, C (2012). Data Structure Report of Small-Scale Sampling of the Mesolithic Site at Bàgh an Teampaill, Toe Head Peninsula, Northton, Harris, 2011. Unpublished Data Structure Report: Department of Archaeology, Durham University.
• Blake, E., Church, M. J. & Nesbitt, C. (2012). Data Structure Report of Small-Scale Sampling of a Mesolithic Shell Midden at Tràigh na Beirigh, Cnip, Lewis, 2011. Unpublished Data Structure Report: Department of Archaeology, Durham University.
• Bishop, R. R., Church, M. J. & Rowley-Conwy, P. A. (2011). Excavations at Northton, Western Isles of Scotland, 2010; Data Structure Report. Department of Archaeology. Unpublished Data Structure Report: Department of Archaeology, Durham University.