ABSTRACT
The Leverhulme funding allowed the idea for an international project, with multiple hypotheses for testing and a then novel methodology, that of palaeoentomology, to become a reality. The preliminary samples examined in Doncaster had indicated that there was a clear potential for a palaeoenvironmental study in the North Atlantic region, which would not intrude too far into the territories of others. With the exception of sites in York, there have been few opportunities for in situ development of palaeoenvironmental research strategies. Even where research carried out in an archaeology department is clearly concerned with climate and environmental change, it stands little chance of attracting funding from the Natural Environment Research Council; most archaeologists simply lack the necessary highly placed patrons. The settled areas of the Norse farmers are inland, largely away from the modern Inuit coastal settlements, and access by small boats can be a chancy affair.
