My research focuses on the North Atlantic and Arctic regions, particularly Norse Greenland, Iceland, and Norway, investigating how past societies adapted to climate variability, environmental change, and resource challenges. Through the analysis of animal remains, other archaeological evidence, and environmental records, I explore long-term patterns of resilience, sustainability, and cultural transformation. My research also examines outfield resource use, mobility, maritime economies, and the emergence of complex coastal societies.

I have been an instructor at the annual  Archaeological Field Course (ARK307) since 2021.

Academic article

• George Hambrecht; Frank Feeley; Konrad Smiarowski et al. (2019). A millennium of Icelandic archaeological fish data examined against marine climate records. (external link)
• Carly Ameen; Tatiana R. Feuerborn; Sarah K. Brown et al. (2019). Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic. (external link)
• Rowan Jackson; Jette Arneborg; Andrew Dugmore et al. (2018). Disequilibrium, Adaptation, and the Norse Settlement of Greenland. (external link)
• George Hambrecht; Cecilia Anderung; Seth Brewington et al. (2018). Archaeological Sites as Distributed Long-term Observing Networks of the Past (DONOP). (external link)
• Margaret C. Nelson; Scott E. Ingram; Andrew J. Dugmore et al. (2016). Climate challenges, vulnerabilities, and food security. (external link)
• Seth Brewington; Megan Hicks; Ágústa Edwald et al. (2015). Islands of change vs. islands of disaster: managing pigs and birds in the Anthropocene of the North Atlantic.. (external link)
• Karin Frei; Ashley Coutu; Konrad Smiarowski et al. (2015). Was it for walrus? Viking Age settlement and medieval walrus ivory trade in Iceland and Greenland. (external link)
• Astrid E.J. Ogilvie; James M. Woollett; Konrad Smiarowski et al. (2009). Seals and Sea Ice in Medieval Greenland. (external link)
• Colin Amundsen; Sophia Perdikaris; Thomas H. McGovern et al. (2005). Fishing Booths and Fishing Strategies in Medieval Iceland: an Archaeofauna from the of Akurvík, North-West Iceland. (external link)

Academic book chapter

• Rowan Jackson; Jette Arneborg; Andrew Dugmore et al. (2022). Success and Failure in the Norse North Atlantic: Origins, Pathway Divergence, Extinction and Survival. (external link)
• Thomas H. McGovern; George Hambrecht; Seth Brewington et al. (2017). Too Many Bones Data Management and the NABONE Experience. (external link)
• Konrad Smiarowski; Ramona Harrison; Seth Brewington et al. (2017). Zooarchaeology of the Scandinavian settlements in Iceland and Greenland. (external link)
• Thomas McGovern; Ramona Harrison; Konrad Smiarowski (2014). Sorting Sheep and Goats in Medieval Iceland and Greenland. (external link)
• Konrad Smiarowski (2014). Climate-Related Farm-to-Shieling Transition at E74 Qorlortorsuaq in Norse Greenland. (external link)
• Andrew J. Dugmore; Thomas H. McGovern; Richard Streeter et al. (2013). ‘Clumsy solutions' and ‘elegant failures' : Lessons on climate change adaptation from the settlement of the North Atlantic islands. (external link)
• Andrew J. Dugmore; Christian Keller; Thomas H. McGovern et al. (2009). Norse Greenland settlement and limits to adaptation. (external link)

Book anthology

• Daniel Makowiecki; Renata Abłamowicz; Dominik Abłamowicz et al. (2008). Archaeozoological Research in Poland and Middle-East Europe. Data – Methods – Interpretations. (external link)

Conference poster

• Konrad Smiarowski; Yvonne Dahl; Howell Roberts et al. (2025). Expansion to the Top of the Neolithic World. A Gallery Grave at Selje, Norway. (external link)

Media feature article

• Tim Folger; Konrad Smiarowski (2017). Why Did Greenland's Vikings Vanish?. (external link)
• Eli Kintisch; Konrad Smiarowski (2016). Growing Greenland's archaeologists. (external link)

Radio or TV participation

• Tony Robinson; Konrad Smiarowski (2009). Man on Earth: Killer Climate. (external link)

Research report

• Morten Ramstad; Konrad Smiarowski; Runar Hole (2018). Fangstminner og teltring ved Geitfjellet og Teinnosa. (external link)
• Howell Magnus Roberts; Morten Ramstad; Yvonne Dahl et al. (2017). Arkeologisk sikringsundersøkelse av tuft og røys, med dateringsramme fra neolitikum til førromersk jernalder. (external link)
• Morten Ramstad; Konrad Smiarowski; Runar Hole (2016). Arkeologiske sikringsundersøkelser av fonn og fangstanlegg. (external link)
• Karen Milek; Konrad Smiarowski; Astrid Daxböck et al. (2009). Vatnsfjörður 2008: Interim Reports - The University of Aberdeen Research Portal. (external link)
• Karen Milek; Konrad Smiarowski; Astrid Daxböck et al. (2008). Vatnsfjörður 2007: Interim Reports - The University of Aberdeen. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in NVA.