• Ecological globalisation, serial depletion and the medieval trade of walrus rostra 

      Barrett, James; Boessenkool, Sanne; O'Connell, Tamsin C; Kneale, Catherine; Star, Bastiaan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      The impacts of early ecological globalisation may have had profound economic and environmental consequences for human settlements and animal populations. Here, we review the extent of such historical impacts by investigating ...
    • Walruses on the Dnieper: new evidence for the intercontinental trade of Greenlandic ivory in the Middle Ages 

      Barrett, James; Khamaiko, Natalia; Ferrari, Giada; Cuevas, Angelica; Kneale, Catherine; Hufthammer, Anne Karin; Palsdottir, Albina Hulda; Star, Bastiaan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Mediaeval walrus hunting in Iceland and Greenland—driven by Western European demand for ivory and walrus hide ropes—has been identified as an important pre-modern example of ecological globalization. By contrast, the main ...