Education:
Ph.D., Graduate School & University Center (CUNY) - 1998 (Anthropology)
Areas of Expertise:
Archaeology, zooarchaeology, Viking, fisheries, polution, Caribbean, Saladoid, environmental archaeology, historical ecology.
Books and Publications
Perdikaris, Sophia, Sandrine Grouard, George Hambrecht, Megan Hicks, Anjana Mebane-Cruz and Reaksha Persaud. "The Caves of Barbuda's Eastern Coast: Long-term Occupation, Ethnohistory and Ritual." III.1, March. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2013
Perdikaris, S. and T.H. McGovern. "Codfish and Kings, Seals and Subsistence: Norse Marine Resource Use in the North Atlantic." Human Impacts on Marine Environments. Eds. Torben Rick and Jon Erlandson. UCLA Press Historical Ecology Series. 157-90. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008
Perdikaris, Sophia and Thomas H. McGovern. "Viking Age Economics and the Origins of Commercial Cod Fisheries in the North Atlantic." The North Atlantic Fisheries in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: Interdisciplinary Approaches in History, Archaeology, and Biology. Eds. Louis Sickling & Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, The Netherlands: Brill Publishers. In press. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2008
Dugmore, Andy, Mike J. Church, Kerry-Anne Mairs, T.H. McGovern, Sophia Perdikaris and Orri Vesteinsson. "Abandoned Farms, Volcanic Impacts and Woodland Management: Revisiting Thórsárdalur, the 'Pompeii of Iceland.'" Arctic Anthropology 44.1: 1-12. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007
McGovern, T.H., O. Vesteinsson, A. Fridriksson, M. Church, I. Lawson, I.A. Simpson, A. Einarsson, A. Dugmore, G. Cook, S. Perdikaris, K. Edwards, A.M. Thompson, W.P. Adderley, A. Newton, G. Lucas and O. Aldred. "Landscapes of Settlement in Northern Iceland; Historical Ecology of Human Impact and Climate Fluctuation of the Millennial Scale." American Anthropologist 109.1: 27-51. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007
McGovern, Thomas H., Orri Vésteinsson, Adolf Fridriksson, Mike Church, Ian Lawson, Ian A. Simpson, Arni Einarsson, Andy Dugmore, Gordon Cook, Sophia Perdikaris, Kevin Edwards, Amanda M. Thomson, W. Paul Adderley, Anthony Newton, Gavin Lucas and Oscar Aldred. "Landscapes of Settlement in Northern Iceland: Historical Ecology of Human Impact & Climate Fluctuation on the Millennial Scale" invited paper. American Anthropologist 109.1: 27-51. (Special issue on the archaeology of global change.) (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007
Perdikaris, S. and T. H. McGovern. "Viking Age Economics and the Origins of Commercial Cod Fisheries in the North Atlantic." Consequences of the North Atlantic Fisheries in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. Interdisciplinary Approaches in History, Archaeology and Biology. Ed. L. Sicking. The Netherlands: Brill Publishers. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2007
Perdikaris, S. and T.H. McGovern. "Walrus, Cod Fish and Chieftains : Intensification in the Norse North Atlantic." Seeking a Richer Harvest: The Archaeology of Subsistence Intensification, Innovation, and Change. Eds. T.L. Thurston and C.T. Fisher. New York: Springer Science+Business Media.193-216. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007
McGovern, T.H., Sophia Perdikaris, Arni Einarsson and Jane Sidell. "Coastal Connections, Local Fishing, and Sustainable Egg Harvesting--Patterns of Viking Age Inland Wild Resource Use in Mývatn District, Northern Iceland." Environmental Archaeology 11.1: 102-28. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006
Edvardsson, E., S. Perdikaris, T.H. McGovern, N. Zagor and M. Waxman. "Coping With Hard Times in NW Iceland: Zooarchaeology, History and Landscape Archaeology at Finnbogastadir in the 18th Century." Archaeologica Islandica 3: 20-47. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2004
Perdikaris, S., T.H. McGovern, Y. Krivogorskaya and M. Waxman. "Early Modern Fisher-farmers at Finnbogastadir and Gjogur in Northwest Iceland." Presencia de la arqueoictiologia en Mexico: Libro de memorias de la 12a reunion del Grup de Trabajo en Restos de Peces de Internations Council for Archaeozoology. Eds. Ana Fabiola Guzman, Oscar J. Polaco and Felisa J. Aguilar. 139-45. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2003
