10 results for projects related to 'social' |
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: | 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: | Evaluation of Archaeoentomology for Reconstructing Rural Life-Ways and the Process of Modernisation in Iceland |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=180 |
Country: | Iceland |
Description: | This project was initiated with Véronique Forbes's PhD dissertation at the University of Aberdeen 'Evaluation of Archaeoentomology for Reconstructing Rural Life-Ways and the Process of Modernisation in 19th and Early 20th-Century Iceland' (2013). The...[More] |
Keywords: | Archaeoentomology, Modernization, Iceland |
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: | Hegranes Zooarchaeology Project Hegranes Zooarchaeology Project |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=230 |
Country: | Iceland |
Region: | Skagafjörður |
Description: | This project focuses on the zooarchaeology of Hegranes, in Skagafjörður. Partnered with the Skagafjörður Church and Settlement Survey (SCASS, http://blogs.umb.edu/scass/) and the Fornbýli Landscape and Archaeological Survey on Hegranes (FLASH, http:/...[More] |
Keywords: | Iceland, zooarchaeology, marine adaptations, settlement patterns, abandonment |
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: | 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: | 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: | Vatnsfjörður |
Permalink: | https://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: | 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 |