| 29 results for projects related to 'Medieval' |
Please select a project title for further details
| Project Title: | A system of earthworks in S-Þingeyjarsýsla |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=83 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | This project aims to map and investigate an extensive system of medieval earthworks in S-Þingeyjarsýsla. The project consists of extensive surveys, mapping and excavation. Only the excavation reports are presented here....[More] |
| 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: | 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: | Communication, Settlements and Landscape – Social Dimensions in Norse Societies in the Viking and Early Medieval periods (c. 800-1200 AD) |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=118 |
| Country: | Other |
| Region: | The project includes areas in Scotland, Iceland, South Greenland and Canada. |
| Description: | This four year PhD project focus on the dynamics between the physcial landscape, communication in various shapes, settlement structure and the society. Focus areas in the Orkneys, Iceland, Greenland and Canada provide the empirical base of the projec...[More] |
| Keywords: | Communication,landscape,settlements,social,transport,cairn,cairns,ships,visual,analysis |
| 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: | Geophysical survey at Housa Voe, Papa Stour, Shetland |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=128 |
| Country: | Scotland |
| Region: | Papa Stour, Shetland |
| Description: | A geophysical survey at Housa Voe, Papa Stour, was undertaken in May 2010. The survey forms part of The Assembly Project. ...[More] |
| Keywords: | thing, assembly, viking age, medieval |
| Project Title: | Geophysical survey at Tingwall, Shetland |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=127 |
| Country: | Scotland |
| Region: | Shetland |
| Description: | The present report summarizes the geophysical survey at Tingwall, which is home of the most important assembly site of Shetland. The survey was undertaken in May 2010 and is part of The Assembly Project. ...[More] |
| Keywords: | thing, assembly, viking age, medieval |
| 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: | Harbours of the North Atlantic AD 800-1300 Harbours of the North Atlantic (AD 800-1300) (HaNoA) |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=172 |
| Country: | Faroe Islands |
| Description: | The core aims of the project are: to investigate possible port facilities and their functions by studying medieval written sources, to examine the topography of ports in relation to navigational aids (e.g. landmarks), ballast fields, the seabed a...[More] |
| Keywords: | harbours,Viking,Medieval,trade |
| 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: | Medieval farm sites trenched in Mývatnssveit |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=111 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | This part of the Landscapes of Settlement project aims to do prelimiary trenching in several sites in the Mývatn area to acquire dates for settlements, both their establishment and abandonment....[More] |
| Project Title: | Midden in Möðruvellir |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=89 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | The key aim of this effort was to locate and recover animal bones, artefacts, and environmental samples from a well stratified midden sequence at Möðruvellir, in connection with ongoing archaeological work investigating local subsistence strategies i...[More] |
| Project Title: | Midden in Skútustaðir |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=109 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | This project aims to gather archaeofauna and other comparative data from a midden dating back to medieval times in Skútustaðir, south of lake Mývatn. Please note this record will not be updated further and up to date details about Skútust...[More] |
| Project Title: | Modelling changes in the coastal geomorphology of Unst, Shetland and the implications for understanding High to Late Medieval harbour changes in the Scandinavian North Atlantic |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=222 |
| Country: | Scotland |
| Region: | Unst, Shetland Islands |
| Description: | This sub-project is part of the SP5 Geomorphology section of the HaNoA project. The geomorphological setting of Norse harbours in the Atlantic is variable, with contrasting landform stability over short, medium and long time scales. Here we asses...[More] |
| Keywords: | Geormorphology, Unst, Shetland, Coastal, Harbour, Landing site, Norse, Viking, Erosion, Beach, |
| Project Title: | Myrkárdalur |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=22 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | The highland site at Myrkárdalur contains several ruins, and the early farm ruin is clearly visible: several rooms are connected through a central corridor, reminiscent of medieval houses from Greenland. A landslide in the 14th Century destroyed par...[More] |
| Keywords: | Hörgárdalur,local-resources,archaeofauna,environment,site-formation-processes |
| Project Title: | NUM3NA: Norse Use of Marine Mammals in the Medieval North Atlantic |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=221 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Region: | North Atlantic |
| Keywords: | whales, seals, walrus, aDNA, environmental humanities |
| Project Title: | Oddstaðir |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=21 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | The site of Oddstaðir farm ruins nowadays belong to the land owned by Öxnhóll farm, once a church farm. The 2009 Midden excavation yielded well preserved animal bones and was sampled for environmental analyses. Tephra analysis and C14 data may co...[More] |
| Keywords: | Hörgárdalur,local-resources,archaeofauna,environment,site-formation |
| 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: | Skuggi |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=10 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | Skuggi is an upland small sized farming site in Hörgárdalur, Eyjafjörður and may have been a tenant farm in the earlier Middle Ages, as part of the Staðartunga landholdings. Staðardunga is assumed to have been connected to the medieval monastery at M...[More] |
| Keywords: | Hörgárdalur,local-resources,archaeofauna,environment,site-formation-processes |
| Project Title: | Snow modelling Hörgardalur |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=218 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | This is the northern Iceland field site for the snow modelling in Iceland project. Fieldwork in March 2014 collected measurements of snow depth and density near the archaeological site of Skuggi. These measurements along with LANDSAT imagery is us...[More] |
| Keywords: | Comparative Island Ecodynamics, snow, Little Ice Age |
| Project Title: | Snow modelling Skaftártunga |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=217 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | This is the southern Iceland field site for the snow modelling in Iceland project. Fieldwork in March 2014 collected measurements of snow depth and density at the farms of Hrifunes and Búland. These measurements along with LANDSAT imagery is used ...[More] |
| Keywords: | Comparative Island Ecodynamics, snow, Little Ice Age |
| 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: | 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: | Survey of medieval harbours at Shetland |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=156 |
| Country: | Scotland |
| Region: | Shetland |
| Keywords: | Shetland, medieval, trading site |
| Project Title: | The Assembly Project - Meeting-places in Northern Europe AD 400-1500 The Assembly Project - Meeting-places in Northern Europe AD 400-1500 |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=126 |
| Country: | Other |
| Description: | The Assembly Project – Meeting-places in Northern Europe AD 400-1500 (TAP) is an international collaborative research project. TAP aims to investigate the role of assemblies (things) in the creation of collective identities and emergent kingdom...[More] |
| Keywords: | thing, assembly, Norse, Iceland, Shetland, Norway |
| 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 |
| 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: | 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 |