16 results for projects related to 'New' |
Project Title: | Assembly sites Assembly sites |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=58 |
Country: | Iceland |
Description: | The project Assembly sites (Þinghald til forna) aims to revaluate all known assembly sites in Iceland, many of which had been mapped by antiquarians in the 19th and early 20th centuries . The purpose is to shed new light on the age, layout, and func...[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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | Laufás |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=46 |
Country: | Iceland |
Description: | A trench was excavated along the passage floor in the upstanding farm of Laufás prior to the construction of new heating pipes under the floor. ...[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: | 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: | Palaeoanthropocene in Iceland |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=219 |
Country: | Iceland |
Description: | This project used published and new records of vegetation change and soil erosion from all of Iceland to look at the timing, extent and rate of change in natural systems at Landnám. This dataset was used to investigate the what extent it was possible...[More] |
Keywords: | Comparative Island Ecodynamics, anthropocene, pollen, tephra, soil erosion, Landnám |
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: | Svalbarð revisited |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=102 |
Country: | Iceland |
Description: | In 1986 and 1988 midden excavations took place in Svalbarð, N-Þingeyjarsýsla, revealing one of the largest faunal collections up to that point in Iceland. The results were instrumental in the development of methods and models for reconstructing pala...[More] |
Project Title: | The Alluitsoq Project |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=231 |
Country: | Greenland |
Region: | Kujalleq Municipality / Kommune Kujalleq |
Description: | The Alluitsoq Project is a community-based, collaborative research program investigating life at the former Moravian mission of Lichtenau (est. 1774) in South Greenland. It is designed to position descendant community members as key contributors for ...[More] |
Keywords: | Indigenous Archaology, Greenland, Lichtenau, Moravian, Community-based, Collaborative, Colonial |
Project Title: | Eyjafjallajokull 2010- the formations of an enduring record The ash-fall from the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland: The formation of an environmental record, natural and cultural impacts |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=125 |
Country: | Iceland |
Region: | Eyjafjallajökull |
Description: | This project will hold workshops to establish the best way to study the transformations and impacts of the volcanic ash fall from 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland. This eruption offers a once-in-a-generation opportunity to create a new unde...[More] |
Keywords: | Eruption,Eyjafjallajökull,Iceland,tephra,impacts,environment, |
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: | 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 |