| 9 results for projects related to 'Eastern' |
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| Project Title: | The Norse Settlement in the Vatnahverfi Region, South Greenland c. AD 985 - c. AD 1450 Greenland - The Vatnahverfi Project - Settlement, economy, and depopulation. |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=17 |
| Country: | Greenland |
| Description: | The aim of the programme is to discuss landnam (landtaking) strategies and the later depopulation in the light of the interplay between the two economic spheres of the Norse Greenland Economy: subsistence based on the resources of the local, settled ...[More] |
| Keywords: | Norse,Eastern,Settlement,Vatnahverfi,Settlement,Structure,Economy,Identity,Mobility,Communication |
| 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: | 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: | Norse Greenland dietary project Norse Greenland dietary project - Norse Greenland isotope project |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=18 |
| Country: | Greenland |
| Description: | An initial study of the d13 C values for human bone collagen of 27 Norse Greenlanders in the late 1990's suggested a change in the Norse diet from predominantly terrestrial food to predominantly marine food. The shift may indicate a change in diet;...[More] |
| Keywords: | Greenland,Norse,diet,isotopes, |
| 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: | Snow, landscape and people: Modelling variations in snow distribution and melt across the landscape and the implications for human activities |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=130 |
| Country: | Greenland |
| Region: | Arctic |
| Description: | The quantity and distribution of snow across landscapes and timing of the spring snowmelt is key to a diverse range of processes, from the hydrological cycle and glaciation through to ecological and human-environment interactions. Many snow-covered...[More] |
| Keywords: | Snow, modelling, Arctic populations |
| Project Title: | The Hvalsey Fjord farms - Excavations at the |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=8 |
| Country: | Greenland |
| Description: | The ruins at ruin site Ø83a were first recorded and excavated by Aage Roussell in 1935. Originally eight ruins and three cooking pits were recorded. To day four of the ruins have been removed owing to modern cultivation. Roussell's report on the 1...[More] |
| Keywords: | Hvalsey,Fjord,farm,church, |