| 8 results for projects related to 'Economy' |
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| Project Title: | Barbuda Historical Ecology Project Barbuda Historical Ecology Project |
| Permalink: | http://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: | Everley Broch |
| Permalink: | http://www.nabohome.org/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=13 |
| Country: | Scotland |
| Region: | Caithness |
| Description: | The site of Everley Broch, situated in Caithness, is composed of a Middle Iron Age broch and a Late Norse house. This project aimed to study the human/plant interaction on the site and see its evolution through time. The archaeobotanical assemblage s...[More] |
| Keywords: | Archaeobotany,,Broch,,Iron,Age,,Norse |
| 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: | http://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: | Human-Plant Interactions in Barbuda |
| Permalink: | http://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: | Skútustaðir Excavation |
| Permalink: | http://www.nabohome.org/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=3 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | Skutustadir 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: | Gásir Hinterlands Project Study of local subsistence and trans-Atlantic regional trading economy in medieval Iceland |
| Permalink: | http://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: | Vatnsfjörður |
| Permalink: | http://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: | Ø172 Tatsip Ataa Midden Excavation Project - Subsistence Strategies and Economy in Norse Vatnahverfi |
| Permalink: | http://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 |