James Barrett

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[1] Anderson A., Barrett J.H., and Boyle K.V. (eds.) (2010). The Global Origins and Development of Seafaring. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
[2] Barrett J.H. (2010). Rounding up the usual suspects: Causation and the Viking Age diaspora. In: A. Anderson, J.H. Barrett, and K.V. Boyle (eds.), The Global Origins and Development of Seafaring, pp. 289–302. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
[3] Barrett J.H. and Anderson A. (2010). Histories of global seafaring: A discussion. In: A. Anderson, J.H. Barrett, and K.V. Boyle (eds.), The Global Origins and Development of Seafaring, pp. 305–314. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
[4] Barrett J.H. and Slater A. (2009). New excavations at the Brough of Deerness: Power and religion in Viking Age Scotland. Journal of the North Atlantic, 2:pp. 81–94
[5] Parks R. and Barrett J.H. (2009). The zooarchaeology of Sand. In: K. Hardy and C. Wickham-Jones (eds.), Mesolithic and Later Sites around the Inner Sound, Scotland: The work of the Scotland.s First Settlers Project 1998–2004, Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports 31. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. http://www.sair.org.uk/sair31
[6] Bailey G., Barrett J.H., Craig O., and Milner N. (2008). Historical ecology of the North Sea basin: An archaeological perspective and some problems of methodology. In: T. Rick and J. Erlandson (eds.), Human Impacts on Ancient Marine Ecosystems: A global perspective, pp. 216–242. Berkeley: University of California Press
[7] Barrett J.H. (2008a). The Norse in Scotland. In: S. Brink and N. Price (eds.), The Viking World, pp. 411–427. London: Routledge
[8] Barrett J.H. (2008b). What caused the Viking Age? Antiquity, 82:pp. 671–685
[9] Barrett J.H., Johnstone C., Harland J., Van Neer W., Ervynck A., Makowiecki D., Heinrich D., Hufthammer A.K., Enghoff I.B., Amundsen C., Christiansen J.S., Jones A.K.G., Locker A., Hamilton-Dyer S., Jonsson L., Lõugas L., Roberts C., and Richards M. (2008). Detecting the medieval cod trade: A new method and first results. Journal of Archaeological Science, 35(4):pp. 850–861
[10] Kettle A.J., Heinrich D., Barrett J.H., Benecke N., and Locker A. (2008). Past distributions of the european freshwater eel from archaeological and palaeontological evidence. Quaternary Science Reviews, pp. 1309–1334
[11] Barrett J., Hall A., Johnstone C., Kenward H., O'Connor T., and Ashby S. (2007). Interpreting the plant and animal remains from Viking-age Kaupang. In: D. Skre (ed.), Kaupang in Skiringssal, pp. 283–319. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press
[12] Barrett J.H. (2007). The pirate fishermen: The political economy of a medieval maritime society. In: B. Ballin Smith, S. Taylor, and G. Williams (eds.), West over Sea: Studies in Scandinavian sea-borne expansion and settlement before 1300, pp. 299–340. Leiden: Brill
[13] Dobney K., Jaques D., Barrett J.H., and Johnstone C. (2007). Farmers, monks and aristocrats: The environmental archaeology of an Anglo-Saxon estate centre at Flixborough, North Lincolnshire, UK. Oxford: Oxbow Books
[14] Fairnell E.H. and Barrett J.H. (2007). Fur-bearing species and Scottish islands. Journal of Archaeological Science, 34:pp. 463–484
[15] Milner N., Barrett J.H., and Welsh J. (2007). Marine resource intensification in Viking Age Europe: The molluscan evidence from Quoygrew, Orkney. Journal of Archaeological Science, 34:pp. 1461–1472
[16] O'Connor T.P. and Barrett J.H. (2006). Animal bones. In: J. Balme and A. Paterson (eds.), Archaeology in practice: A student guide to archaeological analyses, pp. 260–295. Oxford: Blackwell
[17] Barrett J.H. (2005a). Economic intensification in Viking Age and medieval Orkney, Scotland: Excavations at Quoygrew. In: A. Mortensen and S.V. Arge (eds.), Viking and Norse in the North Atlantic: Select papers from the proceedings of the fourteenth Viking Congress, Tórshavn, 19–30 July 2001, pp. 264–283. Tórshavn: Føroya Fródhskaparfelag, Annales Societatis Scientiarum Færoensis Supplementum XLIV
[18] Barrett J.H. (2005b). Svein Asleifarson and 12th-century Orcadian society. In: O. Owen (ed.), The World of Orkneyinga Saga: `The broad-cloth Viking trip', pp. 213–223. Kirkwall: The Orcadian
[19] Simpson I.A., Barrett J.H., and Milek K.B. (2005). Interpreting the Viking Age to medieval period transition in Norse Orkney through cultural soil and sediment analyses. Geoarchaeology, 20:pp. 355–377
[20] Barrett J.H. (2004a). Beyond war or peace: The study of culture contact in Viking-age Scotland. In: J. Hines, A. Lane, and M. Redknap (eds.), Land, sea and home: Proceedings of a conference on Viking-period settlement, pp. 207–218. Leeds: Maney, Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph 20
[21] Barrett J.H. (2004b). Swein Asleiffson. In: H.C.G. Matthew and B. Harrison (eds.), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/49359
[22] Barrett J.H., Locker A.M., and Roberts C.M. (2004a). `Dark Age economics' revisited: The English fish bone evidence AD 600–1600. Antiquity, 78:pp. 618–636. http://www.antiquity.cc/Ant/078/0618/Ant0780618.pdf
[23] Barrett J.H., Locker A.M., and Roberts C.M. (2004b). The origin of intensive marine fishing in medieval Europe: The English evidence. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 271:pp. 2417–2421
[24] Barrett J.H. and Richards M.P. (2004). Identity, gender, religion and economy: New isotope and radiocarbon evidence for marine resource intensification in early historic Orkney, Scotland. European Journal of Archaeology, 7 (3):pp. 249–271. http://eja.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/7/3/249
[25] Barrett J.H. (2003a). Introduction. In: J.H. Barrett (ed.), Contact, continuity and collapse: The Norse colonization of the North Atlantic, pp. 1–7. Turnhout: Brepols, Studies in the Early Middle Ages
[26] Barrett J.H. (2003b). Culture contact in Viking Age Scotland. In: J.H. Barrett (ed.), Contact, continuity and collapse: The Norse colonization of the North Atlantic, pp. 73–111. Turnhout: Brepols, Studies in the Early Middle Ages
[27] Barrett J.H. (2003c). Excavations at Quoygrew (Orkney, Scotland) and the growth of the mediaeval fish trade. In: M. Pieters, F. Verhaeghe, G. Gevaert, J. Mees, and J. Seys (eds.), Colloquium: Fishery, trade and piracy - fishermen and fishermen's settlements in and around the North Sea area in the Middle Ages and later, pp. 8–12. Oostende: Instituut voor het Archeologisch Patrimonium Rapport 13
[28] Harland J.F., Barrett J.H., Carrott J., Dobney K., and Jaques D. (2003). The York System: An integrated zooarchaeological database for research and teaching. Internet Archaeology, 13:p. http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue13/harland_index.html
[29] Barrett J.H. (2002a). Christian and pagan practice during the conversion of Viking Age Orkney and Shetland. In: M.O.H. Carver (ed.), The Cross Goes North, pp. 207–226. Woodbridge: Boydell Press
[30] Barrett J.H. (2002b). La pêche et l'économie maritime de l'écosse scandinave. In: E. Ridel and P. Bouet (eds.), L'Héritage Maritime des Vikings en Europe de L'Ouest, pp. 119–135. Caen: Presses Universitaires de Caen
[31] Barrett J.H., Beukens R.P., and Nicholson R.A. (2001). Diet and ethnicity during the Viking colonisation of northern Scotland: Evidence from fish bones and stable carbon isotopes. Antiquity, 75:pp. 145–154
[32] Barrett J., Beukens R., Simpson I., Ashmore P., Poaps S., and Huntley J. (2000a). What was the Viking Age and when did it happen? A view from Orkney. Norwegian Archaeological Review, 33:pp. 1–39
[33] Barrett J.H., Beukens R.P., and Brothwell D.R. (2000b). Radiocarbon dating and marine reservoir correction of Viking Age Christian burials from Orkney. Antiquity, 74:pp. 537–543
[34] Barrett J.H., Nicholson R.A., and Cerón-Carrasco R. (1999). Archaeo-ichthyological evidence for long-term socioeconomic trends in northern Scotland: 3500 BC to AD 1500. Journal of Archaeological Science, 26:pp. 353–388
[35] Barrett J.H. (1997). Fish trade in Norse Orkney and Caithness: A zooarchaeological approach. Antiquity, 71:pp. 616–638
[36] Simpson I.A. and Barrett J.H. (1996). Interpretation of midden formation processes at Robert's Haven, Caithness, Scotland, using thin section micromorphology. Journal of Archaeological Science, 23:pp. 543–556
[37] Barrett J.H. (1994). Bone weight and the intra-class comparison of fish taxa. In: W. Van Neer (ed.), Fish exploitation in the past: Proceedings of the 7th meeting of the ICAZ fish remains working group, pp. 3–16. Tervuren: Musee Royal de L'Afrique Centrale
[38] Morris C.D., Barrett J.H., and Batey C.E. (1994). The Viking and Early Settlement Archaeological Research Project. an archaeological research programme and recent results. In: B. Ambrosiani and H. Clarke (eds.), The Twelfth Viking Congress: Developments around the Baltic and the North Sea in the Viking Age, pp. 144–158. Stockholm: The Birka Project
[39] Barrett J.H. (1993). Bone weight, meat yield estimates and cod ( Gadus morhua): A preliminary study of the weight method. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 3:pp. 1–18