| 39 results for projects related to 'Archaeology' |
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| Project Title: | Akurvik Excavations 1990 |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=7 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Region: | Strandir |
| Description: | The site of Akurvik was discovered by Haukur Johanneson in 1987 when beach erosion exposed a series of midden deposits and what proved to be a series of small turf walled booth structures superposed over an 18 m long erosion face at the small embayme...[More] |
| Keywords: | Iceland,Fishing,Medieval,,Fishing,Station,Zooarchaeology,NW,Iceland,Strandasysla |
| Project Title: | Archaeological Investigations of Codrington Castle, Codrington, Barbuda |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=138 |
| Country: | Antigua and Barbuda |
| Region: | Antigua/Barbuda |
| Keywords: | Barbuda,Antigua,Historical,Archaeology,Historical,Ecology,Fortifications |
| Project Title: | Barbuda Historical Ecology Project Barbuda Historical Ecology Project |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=133 |
| Country: | Antigua and Barbuda |
| Region: | Barbuda |
| Description: | This project is a multi-disciplinary longitudinal research effort focusing on the island of Barbuda from first human settlement through to the present day. The goal of the project is to investigate human/environment interactions on the island of Barb...[More] |
| Keywords: | Caribbean, Longitudinal Research, Community Outreach, Paleoclimatology, Paleobotany, Zooarchaeology |
| Project Title: | BHEP Post-Columbian Archaeology |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=137 |
| Country: | Antigua and Barbuda |
| Region: | Antigua/Barbuda |
| Description: | These projects are part of the post-Columnbian/Historical Archaeology wing of the Barbuda Historical Ecology Project. Please contact George Hambrecht (ghambrecht@gmail.com) for any further information or questions....[More] |
| Keywords: | Historical,Archaeology,post-Medieval,Archaeology,Historical,Ecology,Barbuda,Antigua |
| Project Title: | Finnbogastadir Rescue Excavation 1990 |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=5 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | In 1990 construction work around the modern farm house at Finnbogastadir (Arneshreppur, Strandasysla, NW Iceland) hit a stratified midden deposit that produced substantial amounts of well preserved bone and artifacts dating to the 18th to early 19th ...[More] |
| Keywords: | Iceland,Fishing,Zooarchaeology,Strandasysla,Finnbogastadir,Early,Modern |
| Project Title: | From Iceland to New Iceland. The Archaeology of 19th-century Emigration |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=124 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Region: | Höfðaströnd, Skagafjörður |
| Description: | The project is apart of Agusta Edwald's current PhD research project at the Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen. The project is supervised by Dr. Karen Milek and Dr. Jeff Oliver. It aims to shed light on the experience of Icelandic immi...[More] |
| Keywords: | 19th-century,,emigration,,Iceland,,New,Iceland |
| Project Title: | Gásir |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=55 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | The well known medieval trade site of Gásir lies north of Akureyri. The archaeological investigations at Gásir formed the core of a five year project aimed at typifying remains from the full functional and chronological extent of the site. The proje...[More] |
| Project Title: | Gjogur Excavations 1990 |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=6 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Region: | Strandir |
| Description: | The site of Gjogur is a substantial farm mound now associated with a small boat landing. Gjogur is historically known to be an early settlement, and the deeply stratified midden deposits sampled in 1990 indicate a long period of occupation. The 1990 ...[More] |
| Keywords: | Iceland,Strandasysla,Zooarchaeology,Fishing,Early,Modern,Medieval,NW,Iceland |
| Project Title: | Heart of the Atlantic Heart of the Atlantic: cultural landscapes of Sandoy, Faroe Islands |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=14 |
| Country: | Faroe Islands |
| Description: | This inter-disciplinary project investigates the changing cultural and natural landscapes on the island of Sandoy, from first settlement to modern time. Archaeological investigations are focusing on the extensive excavations at Undir Junkarinsflötti,...[More] |
| Keywords: | Faroes,archaeology |
| Project Title: | Hegranes Zooarchaeology Project Hegranes Zooarchaeology Project |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=230 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Region: | Skagafjörður |
| Description: | This project focuses on the zooarchaeology of Hegranes, in Skagafjörður. Partnered with the Skagafjörður Church and Settlement Survey (SCASS, http://blogs.umb.edu/scass/) and the Fornbýli Landscape and Archaeological Survey on Hegranes (FLASH, http:/...[More] |
| Keywords: | Iceland, zooarchaeology, marine adaptations, settlement patterns, abandonment |
| Project Title: | Highland House |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=139 |
| Country: | Antigua and Barbuda |
| Region: | Antigua/Barbuda |
| Description: | Highland House was a multi-purpose complex built in the highlands of Barbuda at the direction of William Codrington. The complex was started during the 1720's and it was in use into the early 19th century. This is a distinctive site in Caribbean hist...[More] |
| Keywords: | Historical,Archaeology,,post-Medieval,Archaeology,,Historical,Ecology,,Barbuda,,Antigua |
| Project Title: | Houses for the Living and the Dead |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=151 |
| Country: | Dominican Republic |
| Region: | Altagracia, Dominican Republic, Greater Antilles, Caribbean |
| Description: | This research combines archaeological and ethnohistorical research to study the organisation of settlement space and residence rules among the Late Ceramic Age (“Taino”) Indians during the Late Ceramic Age (AD 1000-1492). Collaborative...[More] |
| Keywords: | Greater Antilles, Household archaeology, Taíno |
| Project Title: | Human-Plant Interactions in Barbuda |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=140 |
| Country: | Antigua and Barbuda |
| Region: | Barbuda |
| Description: | This archaeobotanical project is part of the larger archaeoenvironmental section of the Barbuda Historical Ecology Project. It is also part of a Ph.D. research at Université Laval (supervised by Dr. Allison Bain) that includes the study of long-term ...[More] |
| Keywords: | Archaeobotany,Environmental,Archaeology,,Barbuda |
| Project Title: | Investigations of the Long Term Sustainability of Human Ecodynamic Systems in Northern Iceland (MYCHANGE) |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=226 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Region: | Mývatn |
| Description: | This international, cross-disciplinary NSF-funded project focuses on change, the environment, and sustainability in Iceland during the period ca. AD 1700 to 1950. A major aim of the project is to establish developments in human and social ecodynamics...[More] |
| Keywords: | Mývatn, Iceland, hay, grazing, fodder, climate, ecodynamics, economy, resiliance, sustainability, |
| Project Title: | Isle of Vallay Archaeology/Climate Change Expedition 2017 |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=228 |
| Country: | Scotland |
| Region: | Outer Hebrides |
| Description: | We are in our second season of a survey of Erskine Beveridge sites on he Isle of Vallay, impacted by Climate Change....[More] |
| Keywords: | Vallay |
| Project Title: | Isle of Vallay Archaeology/Climate Change Expedition 2017 |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=229 |
| Country: | Scotland |
| Region: | Outer Hebrides |
| Description: | We are in our second season of a survey of Erskine Beveridge sites on he Isle of Vallay, impacted by Climate Change....[More] |
| Keywords: | Vallay |
| Project Title: | Dog Island Environmental Archeology Landscape and Subsistence of Dog Island, Labrador |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=16 |
| Country: | Canada |
| Description: | This ongoing project has been conducted since 2005 and survey and excavations at six sites, Oakes Bay 1 (or Parngnertok HeCg-08, Koliktalik 6 (HdCg-23), Evilik Bay (HeCg-04), September Harbour (HdCg-15), and Itibliarsuk (HdCg-57). Field seasons in 2...[More] |
| Keywords: | Labrador, Nunatsiavut, Dog Island, environmental archaeology, settlement patterns, sea ice |
| Project Title: | Laugarnes |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=77 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | In advance of road construction planning five trenches were excavated close to the old farm mound and graveyard in Laugarnes, Reykjavík, to verify the limits of the archaeology. ...[More] |
| Project Title: | Los Buchillones Archaeology Project |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=154 |
| Country: | Cuba |
| Region: | Caribbean, Cuba, Ciego de Avila |
| Description: | The Los Buchillones Archaeology Project involves Cuban, Canadian, Mexican and British specialists in archaeological survey, excavation and material analyses from a number of newly identified sites in a case study area in northern Cuba. This case stud...[More] |
| Keywords: | Cuba, Archaeology, Los Buchillones, |
| Project Title: | Narfastaðasel |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=101 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | Five trial trenches were excavated in Narfastaðasel to value the nature and date of the archaeology. ...[More] |
| Project Title: | Naust |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=93 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | The excavation at Naust in the town of Akureyri took place after evaluation trenches had been dug. The work was carried out in advance of building development. Two areas were excavated and some of the archaeology clearly dates to the Viking Age....[More] |
| Project Title: | Nes við Seltjörn |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=43 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | In 1994 the Seltjarnarnes council decided to have archaeological evaluations carried out around the old farm of Nes in Seltjarnarnes. The old farm now houses museums and the area around it is an outdoor activity area for the public. Bones have previ...[More] |
| Project Title: | Ø172 Tatsip Ataa Midden Excavation Project - Subsistence Strategies and Economy in Norse Vatnahverfi |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=159 |
| Country: | Greenland |
| Region: | Quaqortoq municipality, Igaliku Fjord |
| Description: | The Norse economy in Greenland was strongly dependent upon a balance of both marine resources (seals, sea birds, walruses) and terrestrial resources (pasture plants, woodland, fertilized soils, domestic mammals, reindeer) (McGovern 1985, 2000, McGove...[More] |
| Keywords: | Greenland,Norse,Zooarchaeology,Climate,Subsistance,Eastern,Settlement |
| Project Title: | Ø68 Timerliit Excavation Project - IPY - 2008 |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=160 |
| Country: | Greenland |
| Region: | Quaqortoq municipality, Igaliku Fjord |
| Description: | Excavation of a midden at a Norse farm in inland area of Vatnahverfi, Eastern Settlement. Ø68 is a small size Norse farm in the inland district of Vatnahverfi. Even though the main goal to generate a large, well preserved and stratified zooarchae...[More] |
| Keywords: | Greenland,Norse,Zooarchaeology,Climate,Subsistance,Eastern Settlement |
| Project Title: | RAPID Garðar Collaborative Rescue Project - 2012 |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=161 |
| Country: | Greenland |
| Region: | Quaqortoq municipality, Igaliku Fjord |
| Description: | RAPID is an intensive international multi-disciplinary effort to salvage critical organic remains (zooarchaeological, archaeobotanical, artifactual, geoarchaeological, bioarchaeological, and archaeoentomological) from rapidly degrading cultural depos...[More] |
| Keywords: | Greenland, Norse, Zooarchaeology, Climate, Subsistance, Eastern Settlement |
| Project Title: | Seaview |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=134 |
| Country: | Antigua and Barbuda |
| Region: | Barbuda |
| Description: | Excavation of this early Saladoid site has been ongoing since 2008. What began as a salvaging effort to rescue midden deposits being eroded away by the sea has evolved into an open-area excavation of a large settlement. The 2011 excavation, aimed a...[More] |
| Keywords: | Caribbean,Saladoid,Community,Outreach,Paleobotany,Zooarchaeology,Pottery |
| Project Title: | Skútustaðir Excavation |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=3 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Region: | Mývatnssveit |
| Description: | Skútustaðir is an active farm and hotel center on the south side of Lake Myvatn. It figures in sagas as the home of "Killer Skuta", an early chieftain, and historically was one of two parish church centers in the Myvatn area and has remained one of t...[More] |
| Keywords: | Skutustadir,Iceland,Zooarchaeology |
| Project Title: | Social-ecological Resilience in the Viking-Age to Early-Medieval Faroe Islands |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=136 |
| Country: | Faroe Islands |
| Region: | Sandur, Sandoy |
| Description: | This dissertation aims to evaluate the development and maintenance of social-ecological resilience during the settlement-period (ca. 9th through 11th centuries CE) in the Faroe Islands. In particular, the core objectives include the identification...[More] |
| Keywords: | Faroe Islands, Norse, historical ecology, resilience, zooarchaeology |
| Project Title: | CUNY Strandasysla Historical Ecology Project 1988-90 Strandasysla Historical Ecology Project 1988-90 |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=4 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | This project was a joint collaboration between City University of NY (Tom McGovern) and the National Museum of Iceland (Gudmundur Olafsson) with active collaboration by the Icelandic Natural History Institute (Haukur Johanneson)and the kind support o...[More] |
| Keywords: | West Fjords Iceland, Historical Ecology, Zooarchaeology, Fishing, Iceland |
| Project Title: | Gásir Hinterlands Project Study of local subsistence and trans-Atlantic regional trading economy in medieval Iceland |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=9 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | Goal of this project is to gain a better understanding of the interaction of local subsistence and trans-Atlantic regional trading economy in medieval Iceland by collecting faunal materials and other environmental data from deeply stratified middens ...[More] |
| Keywords: | Trade,Exchange,Zooarchaeology,Gásir,midden,excavations |
| Project Title: | The Archaeology of Climate Change in the Caribbean The Archaeology of Climate Change in the Caribbean |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=153 |
| Country: | Cuba |
| Region: | Caribbean |
| Description: | Pre-Colombian populations in the Caribbean, from 5000 BC to AD 1492, lived through more than five metres relative sea level rise, marked variation in annual rainfall and periodic intensification of hurricane activity. This Leverhulme funded project ...[More] |
| Keywords: | Caribbean, Climate Variability, Environmental Change, Hazards, |
| Project Title: | The Caves of Barbuda |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=150 |
| Country: | Antigua and Barbuda |
| Region: | Windward Coast of Barbuda |
| Description: | Part of the Barbuda Historical Ecology Project - the caves on the windward side of Barbuda show evidence of occupation from earliest settlement through to the present day. These caves present a fascinating spectrum of activities from the many differe...[More] |
| Keywords: | Caves,historical,archaeology,pre-Columbian,archaeology,post-Columbian,archaeology |
| Project Title: | The Siglunes Project: Long-term Investigations of Marine Economy in Eyjafjörður |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=179 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Region: | Eyjafjörður, Siglufjörður, Siglunes Peninsula |
| Description: | The Siglunes site is characterized by a series of coastal remains associated with fishing-related activities on the peninsula itself, and an enormous farm mound and connected in-, and outfield complex on the mainland. Although heavily impacted by...[More] |
| Keywords: | Iceland, terrestrial & marine resources, long-term occupation, subsistence vs. commercial fisheries |
| Project Title: | Útskalar |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=225 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Region: | Southwest Iceland |
| Description: | Between 2005 and 2006 archaeologists from Fornleifastofnun Íslands (Icelandic Institute of Archaeology) conducted excavations at the coastal site of Útskalar, located on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Southwest Iceland. The site's material remains are un...[More] |
| Keywords: | Zooarcheology, faunal remains, Útskalar, Iceland |
| Project Title: | Vaktarabær |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=107 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | During the renovation of a house in central Reykjavík, called Vaktarabær, it was considered necessary to monitor construction work to avoid damaging archaeology. Trenches were dug to evaluate the extent of cultural remains....[More] |
| Project Title: | Vatnsfjörður |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=47 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | The excavation in Vatnsfjörður forms a part of a larger project called Vestfirðir á miðöldum/The Westfjords in the middle ages. The Westfjords have somewhat been neglected in Icelandic archaeology up to this point. The overall aim of the project is...[More] |
| Project Title: | Where should I put this shieling? |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=224 |
| Country: | Greenland |
| Region: | Vatnahverfi |
| Description: | The project was part of the dissertation submitted for the completion of the course MSc GIS and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. The dissertation aimed to explore the theory of Norse pastoral subsistence system using GIS. The basic assumpt...[More] |
| Keywords: | organised pastoral labour, exploit of pastoral resources, modelling communication routes |
| Project Title: | Zooarchaeology of the Skagafjörður Archaeological Settlement Survey (SASS) |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=227 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Region: | Skagafjörður |
| Description: | The Skagafjörður Archaeological Settlement Survey (SASS) examined the settlement pattern of Langholt, Skagafjörður, northern Iceland. Later creation of smaller farms through subdivision of larger, earlier settlements seems to have aided in the creati...[More] |
| Keywords: | zooarchaeology, Skagafjörður |
| Project Title: | Þjórsárdalur |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=56 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | One of the aims of the project "Vestnordisk byggeskik i vikingtid og middelalder" was to revaluate the archaeology of Þjórárdalur which has held a central place in Icelandic archaeology for one and a half century. Knowledge is hitherto based on surv...[More] |