Welcome to NABO

Andy Henry as part of his MSc in GIS at the School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh has created an Internet-based GIS using Google Earth. Modern, historical and modelled data from Mývatnssveit (Iceland) are visualised and can be queried using our new VISQUE system. This is a proof of concept to show that Google Earth can used as an Internet GIS. Full details are available at our VISQUE site.

We have created a Project Management System, where NABO projects can be entered by researchers, displayed on a map and content made available to others. Please check out this new feature here or use the projects link above.

If you wish to enter data into the system, you must first register but no registration is needed to search for projects and download data.

A new Google Earth based mapping system will shortly be available through the NABO website.

Online Publications

The NABO community is constantly producing material for publication and wider outreach. This ranges from material submitted to peer-reviewed academic journals, books chapters, monographs, excavation reports, laboratory reports, magazine articles and many others. These cover the North Atlantic region and also Barbuda in the Caribbean.

Excavation and laboratory reports appear on this website as soon as they are completed. To access these PDFs please go to the publications section or click one of the most recent additions to the right.

At the recent 2009 Viking Congress held in Reykjavik and Reykholt The Institute of Archaeology (Fornleifastofnun Íslands) (FSÍ) made a major donation to the NABO website data project of over 20 years of research amounting to over 300 survey and excavation reports in downloadable pdf format. These reports are being entered into the new NABO map project management system and will shortly be accessible through the new interface.

We would like to gratefully acknowledge this generous gift of hard won data by FSÍ to the Icelandic nation and to the international community and we look forward to working with them in the future to provide updates to this impressive body of information.

Barbuda

NABO is not all about the northern North Atlantic. We are also active in the Caribbean. Our work in Barbuda began in 2000 with CUNY archaeologists and an international team of environmental researchers, in collaboration with the Antigua & Barbuda scholars and agencies and by the invitation of Dr. Reg Murphy (head of archaeology for National Parks Antigua and Barbuda). Reports on our work in Barbuda are available here.

NABO members have been very active in IPY on the national and international scale, and major funding has been secured from Danish, Canadian, and US sources for an ambitious effort to continue and expand NABO collaboration with a special NABO IPY Project: Long Term Human Ecodynamics in the Norse North Atlantic: cases of sustainability, survival, and collapse. This project is currently funded at just over US$ 900,000 and will have fieldwork seasons 2008-10 in the Shetlands, Faroes, Iceland, and SW Greenland.

More details of our involvement in International Polar Year can be found here.

NABONE 9^th Edition

This recording manual is the 9th working version of the NABO Zooarchaeology Working Group Data Records Project, authorized by the January 1997 working group meeting in New York City. The basic structure follows James Rackham's database (Microsoft Access) with some changes and clarifications for North Atlantic applications

The NABONE system consists of this coding manual, a developed Microsoft Access database with useful queries and reports, and an Excel spreadsheet set providing analytic output similar to the old Hunter College QBONE system.

This recording manual is available here