5 results for projects related to 'Radiocarbon' |
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: | Icelandic Freshwater Radiocarbon Reservoir Effects |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=135 |
Country: | Iceland |
Description: | The radiocarbon levels in carbon from freshwater systems of lakes and rivers can be lower than in carbon from the terrestrial biosphere. This makes freshwater carbon appear anomalously old when it is radiocarbon dated. In Iceland, freshwater systems ...[More] |
Keywords: | Radiocarbon,Freshwater,Reservoir,Myvatn |
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 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, |
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 |