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Réttir in the landscape: A study on the interactions between humans and animals through sheep-fold monuments
This report outlines the research that was conducted over the course of one week in late June, 2008. A total of five réttir – sheep folds – were surveyed using... Read more.
Video: Recent Highland Fieldwork in South Greenland, by Christian K. Madsen
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis talk by Christian K. Madsen is from the first day of NABO’s three-day collaborative meeting, held on Sept. 28th 2022 in Reykjavik,... Read more.
Pastoral Settlement, Farming, and Hierarchy in Norse Vatnahverfi, South Greenland (2014)
Christian Koch Madsen (2014) Pastoral Settlement, Farming, and Hierarchy in Norse Vatnahverfi, South Greenland. University of Copenhagen, Unpublished PhD thesis.... Read more.
Norse Coastal Farms: Field Report of a Survey in the Southwest “Vatnahverfi Peninsula” Summer 2009
Beginning in 2005 as a research project under the IPY, the Vatnahverfi Project initiated a series of years of renewed field work in the Vatnahverfi region, South... Read more.
Resources, Mobility, And Cultural Identity in Norse Greenland, Vatnahverfi Project – Report From the Field Work 2008
The summer of 2008 was the fourth season with archaeological field work in the Vatnahverfi region in the Norse Eastern Settlement. The main purpose of the project... Read more.
Herding Structures in Northern Iceland: A Preliminary IPY Report of the Field Season 2008
In the summer of 2008 the author was able to travel to northern Iceland to work with archaeologists and environmental scientists from Iceland, Denmark, Canada, US,... Read more.
