20 results for projects related to 'Historical' |
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: | Aðalstræti 14-18 |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=52 |
Country: | Iceland |
Description: | This project aimed to fully excavate all archaeological remains in Aðalstræti 14-18, Reykjavík in advance of proposed development. The area is historically known as an industrial area at the time of "the factories" (Innréttingarnar) in the 18th cent...[More] |
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: | 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: | Gufuskálar |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=95 |
Country: | Iceland |
Region: | Snæfellsbær |
Description: | The farm of Gufuskálar lies on the westernmost tip of the Snæfellsnes peninsula under the glacier known as Snæfellsjökull. While the farm likely dates to the Viking Age the site was home to a mysterious and intensive commercial fishing venture during...[More] |
Keywords: | medieval, commercial fishing, fishing, fishing station, cod |
Project Title: | Hagrie's Böd |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=11 |
Country: | Scotland |
Description: | From the early sixteenth century, perhaps even from the second decade of the fifteenth century, ships from north Germany made there way across the north Atlantic to Shetland. The main item of trade for the Hanseatic traders was dried fish which was o...[More] |
Keywords: | Hanseatic League,trade,fish,sitophilus,granarius |
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: | Mývatn Landscapes Project Landscapes of Settlement and Change: Long term human ecodynamics in Mývatnssveit |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=2 |
Country: | Iceland |
Keywords: | Iceland,ecodynamics,historical,ecology,Myvatn |
Project Title: | Möðruvellir í Hórgárdal |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=23 |
Country: | Iceland |
Description: | Möðruvellir is located in Hörgárdal, Eyjafjörður, Northern Iceland. The site lies on open lowland pasture, to the north of the river Hörgá, some 13 kilometres north of the modern City of Akureyri. Möðruvellir is situated only a short distance from ...[More] |
Keywords: | Monastic site, long occupation, Hörgárdalur,local-resources,archaeofauna,environment,site-formation- |
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: | 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: | OITIS The Operation of International Trade in Iceland and Shetland c. 1400-1700 |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=12 |
Country: | Iceland |
Description: | The project will examine the development, operation and impact of European trade in two areas in the north Atlantic - Iceland and Shetland. In the early 15th century both were part of the Danish kingdom but, with the pledging of Shetland in 1469, it ...[More] |
Keywords: | Hanseatic League,trade,fish,Middle Ages,post-medieval |