| 98 projects are located in North Atlantic |
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| 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: | Arnórsstaðamúli |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=117 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | A site close to Arnórsstaðamúli, E-Iceland, was threatened by imminent roadworks and a preliminary excavation demanded by the National Heritage Agency. ...[More] |
| Project Title: | Aðalstræti 10 |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=105 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | Trial trenches were excavated in advance of building construction on the western side of an upstanding house in Aðalstræti 10, central Reykjavík. The aim was to see whether archaeological deposits were present in this area known to be rich of remai...[More] |
| Project Title: | Aðalstræti 14-18 |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=52 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | This project aimed to fully excavate all archaeological remains in Aðalstræti 14-18, Reykjavík in advance of proposed development. The area is historically known as an industrial area at the time of "the factories" (Innréttingarnar) in the 18th cent...[More] |
| Project Title: | Bakki, Tjörnes |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=94 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | In relation to construction work in the farm Bakki, subject to plans for building an aluminium factory, some machine digging took place and was supervised by an archaeologist. ...[More] |
| Project Title: | Bangastaðir og Valadalur |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=64 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | Archaeological assessment took place at two sites in Tjörnes which were threatened by imminent roadworks....[More] |
| Project Title: | Boundary in Möðruvellir |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=73 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | A trench was excavated in a boundary wall in Möðruvellir, Eyjafjörður, in advance of road construction plans. ...[More] |
| Project Title: | Breiðafjörður Islands |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=108 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | The islands of Breiðafjörður are unique, geographically bounded spaces, but often maintained, organized and owned from the mainland. Living on islands was a balance between surviving and living through farming and fishing. However, the communication ...[More] |
| Project Title: | Brekka and Daðastaðir in Núpasveit |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=79 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | Evaluation trenching took place prior to road construction in Daðastaðir and Brekka, Núpasveit (NE Iceland) in two sites, several kilometres apart. ...[More] |
| Project Title: | Búðarhálsvirkjun |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=103 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | Archaeological investigations were carried out in Búðarháls prior to the flooding of a stone-built enclosure. This included a measured DGPS survey, a photographic survey, as well as the excavation of four trenches across the walls of the upstandi...[More] |
| Project Title: | Búðatangi, Hrísey |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=81 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | Six trial trenches were dug in Búðatangi in Hrísey, Eyjafjörður, prior to construction work. ...[More] |
| 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: | Dettifoss |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=106 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | In advance of road construction near Dettifoss, N-Iceland, some archaeological sites in Þingeyjarsýsla had to be investigated....[More] |
| Project Title: | Everley Broch |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=13 |
| Country: | Scotland |
| Region: | Caithness |
| Description: | The site of Everley Broch, situated in Caithness, is composed of a Middle Iron Age broch and a Late Norse house. This project aimed to study the human/plant interaction on the site and see its evolution through time. The archaeobotanical assemblage s...[More] |
| Keywords: | Archaeobotany,,Broch,,Iron,Age,,Norse |
| Project Title: | Explorer's stories : Ectoparasites and Hygienic studies in North West Greenland |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=35 |
| Country: | Greenland |
| Region: | Inglefield land |
| Description: | From the end of the 19th century through to the beginning of the 20th century Northwest Greenland was frequently visited by explorers and others attempting to reach the reach the North Pole. Their adventures elicited amazing descriptions of the land ...[More] |
| Keywords: | Ectoparasite,Greenland,Inuit,Inughuit,Explorer,archaeoentomology |
| Project Title: | Eyri in Skutulsfjörður |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=69 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | The investigation in Eyri farm mound was carried out on behalf of the Town of Ísafjörður in connection with the project "The Westfjords in the Middle Ages". The aim was to understand and realise the research potential of the site by trenching....[More] |
| Project Title: | Eyvík in Tjörnes |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=90 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | Prior to construction work a trench was excavated through a boundary. ...[More] |
| Project Title: | Finnbogastadir Rescue Excavation 1990 |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=5 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | In 1990 construction work around the modern farm house at Finnbogastadir (Arneshreppur, Strandasysla, NW Iceland) hit a stratified midden deposit that produced substantial amounts of well preserved bone and artifacts dating to the 18th to early 19th ...[More] |
| Keywords: | Iceland,Fishing,Zooarchaeology,Strandasysla,Finnbogastadir,Early,Modern |
| Project Title: | Fluorine poisoning in victims of the 1793-84 eruption of the Laki fissure |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=116 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | The eruption of the Laki fissure was the greatest calamity to affect Iceland since its settlement. It is estimated that 20% of the population died from starvation and disease. The aim of this project is to investigate causes of death in people wh...[More] |
| 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: | 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: | Glerá |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=44 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | The Glerá project started when human bones were accidentally uncovered in a gravel mine close to the farm mound in Glerá in 1998. Later members of the institute were asked to visit the site several times when a grave mound was demolished and more bo...[More] |
| 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: | Hafnarstræti 16 |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=51 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | During the renovation of an old house in Hafnarstræti 16, central Reykjavík, areas at risk under and up against the house were excavated....[More] |
| Project Title: | Hagrie's Böd |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=11 |
| Country: | Scotland |
| Description: | From the early sixteenth century, perhaps even from the second decade of the fifteenth century, ships from north Germany made there way across the north Atlantic to Shetland. The main item of trade for the Hanseatic traders was dried fish which was o...[More] |
| Keywords: | Hanseatic League,trade,fish,sitophilus,granarius |
| Project Title: | Hásteinsvegur in Stokkseyri |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=114 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | Prior to construction work two trial trenches were excavated in a mound in Stokkseyri, thought to be a possible farm mound. ...[More] |
| Project Title: | Hofstaðir |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=41 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | The Hofstaðir project aimed at re-excavating and re-evaluating Viking Age remains previously investigated in 1908. This project was the flag-ship project for the Landscape of Settlements project....[More] |
| Project Title: | Höfðagerði |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=65 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | The aims of the preliminary investigations at Höfðagerði were to shed light on the dating and nature of the settlement by trenching and intensive survey. ...[More] |
| Project Title: | Högnastaðir in Flúðir |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=115 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | Ten trenches were dug in Högnastaðir, Flúðir, prior to construction plans. ...[More] |
| Project Title: | Hólsfjöll |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=96 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | Trenches were excavated at two alleged farmsites in Hólsfjöll, N-Þingeyjarsýsla. The area lies at about 350-450 m above sea level and is one of the highest inhabited areas in Iceland. ...[More] |
| Project Title: | Hringsdalur |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=99 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | In 2006 human bones were found eroding in Hringsdalur W-Iceland. An excavation was conducted and two pagan burials uncovered....[More] |
| Project Title: | Hrísheimar |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=104 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | The Hrísheimar excavation is a part of the larger Landscape of settlements project. The site, dated to the Viking Age, is on the southwestern side of Mývatn, in a barren and heavily eroded area. Among other things it has extensive iron working remai...[More] |
| Project Title: | Hvolstún |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=72 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | A trench was excavated in a ruin in Hvolsvöllur, in a proposed development area, at the request of the National Heritage Agency. ...[More] |
| 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: | Kálfsskinn, Eyjafirði |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=97 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | In 2003 a few sites in Kálfskinn, Eyjafjörður, had been surveyed and identified as possible pagan burials. In 2005 two of those were tested by opening trenches across each concentrations of stones. ...[More] |
| Project Title: | Kárahnjúkar |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=84 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | The aim of this project was to evaluate the area in the highlands north of Vatnajökull glacier affected by Hálslón, a reservoir which stores water for use in hydroelectricity, and excavate or record archaeological sites endangered by it. This invol...[More] |
| Project Title: | Kúvíkur |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=74 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | The project in Kúvíkur, a trading site established after the monopoly in 1602, was focussed on a midden which was heavily eroded on one side. A trench was excavated, revealing extensive midden layers dating back to the 18th century....[More] |
| 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: | Laugarnes |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=77 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | In advance of road construction planning five trenches were excavated close to the old farm mound and graveyard in Laugarnes, Reykjavík, to verify the limits of the archaeology. ...[More] |
| Project Title: | Leirvogstunga |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=88 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | Excavations in the farm mound of Leirvogstunga, Mosfellsbær were carried out in advance of construction plans, first by trenching but later an open excavation was conducted....[More] |
| Project Title: | Lyngbrekka |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=98 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | In 2003-2005 investigations took place in Lyngbrekka, earlier known as Gömlu-Daðastaðir in Reykjadalur, S-Þing. The aim was to see if folklore and place names could be used as reliable sources to locate pagan burials. ...[More] |
| Project Title: | Lækjargata |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=223 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Region: | Reykjavík |
| Description: | The archaeological remains of Lækjargata (64.146270, -21.938554) in downtown Reykjavík were excavated by archaeologists from Fornleifastofnun Íslands (FSÍ) under the direction of Lísabet Guðmundsdóttir in 2015. ...[More] |
| Keywords: | Lækjargata |
| 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: | Möðruvellir graveyard |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=80 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | A long trench (15 x 2 m) was excavated in the graveyard in Möðruvellir, Hörgárbyggð, prior to laying heating pipes to the church. ...[More] |
| Project Title: | Möðruvellir í Hórgárdal |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=23 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | Möðruvellir is located in Hörgárdal, Eyjafjörður, Northern Iceland. The site lies on open lowland pasture, to the north of the river Hörgá, some 13 kilometres north of the modern City of Akureyri. Möðruvellir is situated only a short distance from ...[More] |
| Keywords: | Monastic site, long occupation, Hörgárdalur,local-resources,archaeofauna,environment,site-formation- |
| 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: | Narfastaðasel |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=101 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | Five trial trenches were excavated in Narfastaðasel to value the nature and date of the archaeology. ...[More] |
| Project Title: | Naust |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=93 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | The excavation at Naust in the town of Akureyri took place after evaluation trenches had been dug. The work was carried out in advance of building development. Two areas were excavated and some of the archaeology clearly dates to the Viking Age....[More] |
| Project Title: | Nauthóll |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=91 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | The excavations at the old farm site Nauthóll, Reykjavík, were conducted following on from an evaluation based on trial trenching in advance of a building development. An area of about 300 m2 was excavated. ...[More] |
| Project Title: | Nes við Seltjörn |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=43 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | In 1994 the Seltjarnarnes council decided to have archaeological evaluations carried out around the old farm of Nes in Seltjarnarnes. The old farm now houses museums and the area around it is an outdoor activity area for the public. Bones have previ...[More] |
| Project Title: | Neðri Ás |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=42 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | The aim of the project was to excavate an alleged graveyard and church ruin in Neðri-Ás. According to written sources this is supposed to be one of the oldest churches in Iceland....[More] |
| Project Title: | Ø172 Tatsip Ataa Midden Excavation Project - Subsistence Strategies and Economy in Norse Vatnahverfi |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=159 |
| Country: | Greenland |
| Region: | Quaqortoq municipality, Igaliku Fjord |
| Description: | The Norse economy in Greenland was strongly dependent upon a balance of both marine resources (seals, sea birds, walruses) and terrestrial resources (pasture plants, woodland, fertilized soils, domestic mammals, reindeer) (McGovern 1985, 2000, McGove...[More] |
| Keywords: | Greenland,Norse,Zooarchaeology,Climate,Subsistance,Eastern,Settlement |
| Project Title: | Ø68 Timerliit Excavation Project - IPY - 2008 |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=160 |
| Country: | Greenland |
| Region: | Quaqortoq municipality, Igaliku Fjord |
| Description: | Excavation of a midden at a Norse farm in inland area of Vatnahverfi, Eastern Settlement. Ø68 is a small size Norse farm in the inland district of Vatnahverfi. Even though the main goal to generate a large, well preserved and stratified zooarchae...[More] |
| Keywords: | Greenland,Norse,Zooarchaeology,Climate,Subsistance,Eastern Settlement |
| 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: | Pagan Burial Maps |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=155 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Region: | all over Iceland |
| Description: | Maps of Pagan Burials in Iceland developed through arcgis software and uploaded on Google Earth. In essence, the focus of this project was to create individual maps considerably zoomed in, showing not only the burials but also the landscape features...[More] |
| Keywords: | burials,maps,pagan |
| Project Title: | Presthús, Akranesi |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=100 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | Due to contstruction work machine digging up against the farm-mound Presthús, Akranes, was monitored by an archaeologist. A section was cleaned and recorded. ...[More] |
| Project Title: | Ráeyri in Siglufjörður |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=86 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | A ruin endangered by road construction in Siglufjörður was fully excavated. ...[More] |
| 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: | Rauðaskriða |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=68 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | The aim of this excavation was to investigate an enclosure believed to be a graveyard and to locate the possible church within it....[More] |
| Project Title: | Reykholt church |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=63 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | The aim of the project is to fully excavate the remains of the old church in Reykholt. This is the first time the full development of a parish church in Iceland is investigated but most church foundations are not accessible for such research as mode...[More] |
| Project Title: | Reykir in Ólafsfjörður |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=76 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | An archeological investigation was conducted in Reykir in Ólafsfjörður in advance of construction plans. Three ruins were fully excavated, a trench excavated through a boundary wall and one cairn investigated. ...[More] |
| Project Title: | Reykjavík water front |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=87 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | The aim of this project was to target possible building remains in the old center and harbour area of Reykjavík, between Hafnarstræti, Pósthússtræti, Geirsgata and Lækjargata....[More] |
| Project Title: | Ruin site Ø47 Bishop's see Gardar |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=19 |
| Country: | Greenland |
| Keywords: | AMS,dates |
| Project Title: | Saltvík |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=71 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | Saltvík is a site which holds three clusters of ancient looking ruins without homefield boundaries. The aims of the preliminary investigations in Saltvík were to shed light on the dating and nature of the settlement by trenching. ...[More] |
| Project Title: | Sea wall in Álftanes |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=48 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | The aim of this project was to investigate a stonebuilt seawall that had to be removed....[More] |
| Project Title: | Skálholt |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=62 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | The project's overall aims encompass a full investigation and presentation of the latter centuries (17th-19th) of settlement at Skálholt, as it was prior to its abandonment after an earthquake in 1784 and at the height of its cultural influence in Ic...[More] |
| 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: | Skútustaðir Excavation |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=3 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Region: | Mývatnssveit |
| Description: | Skútustaðir is an active farm and hotel center on the south side of Lake Myvatn. It figures in sagas as the home of "Killer Skuta", an early chieftain, and historically was one of two parish church centers in the Myvatn area and has remained one of t...[More] |
| Keywords: | Skutustadir,Iceland,Zooarchaeology |
| 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: | Snow, landscape and people: Fieldwork in Norway |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=132 |
| Country: | Norway |
| Region: | Heidal |
| Description: | Fieldwork from project: Snow, landscape and people: Modelling variations in snow distribution and melt across the landscape and the implications for human activities. Snow surveys were completed in Heidal valley, Oppland, along three discontinuous...[More] |
| Keywords: | snow,melt,vegetation,climate |
| Project Title: | Snow, landscape and people: Fieldwork in Sweden |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=131 |
| Country: | Sweden |
| Region: | Abisko |
| Description: | Fieldwork from project: Snow, landscape and people: Modelling variations in snow distribution and melt across the landscape and the implications for human activities. Method: Snow depth and density were measured in the pre-snow melt period from ...[More] |
| Keywords: | snow,distribution,vegetation |
| Project Title: | Snow, landscape and people: Modelling variations in snow distribution and melt across the landscape and the implications for human activities |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=130 |
| Country: | Greenland |
| Region: | Arctic |
| Description: | The quantity and distribution of snow across landscapes and timing of the spring snowmelt is key to a diverse range of processes, from the hydrological cycle and glaciation through to ecological and human-environment interactions. Many snow-covered...[More] |
| Keywords: | Snow, modelling, Arctic populations |
| 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: | Sómastaðagerði |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=67 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | An archaeological evaluation was carried out at Sómastaðagerði and Hraun in Reyðarfjörður on behalf of Alcoa Primary Metals. This was done in advance of construction, and represents the first stage of a process of investigation required to meet the ...[More] |
| Project Title: | Steinbogi |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=59 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | The site Steinbogi in Mývatnssveit was threatened by imminent roadworks and therefore the archaeological potential of the endangered parts of it had to be assessed. The site was also considered of possible value for the Landscape of settlements proj...[More] |
| Project Title: | Survey of archaeological remains at Svínanes, Iceland |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=157 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Region: | Reykhólahreppur |
| Keywords: | Iceland, trading site |
| 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: | 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: | Sveigakot |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=50 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | The aim of the project was to fully excavate all structures and middens located at Sveigakot, south of lake Mývatn. The site of Sveigakot was first surveyed in 1998 in an area now completely eroded. Only midden traces were visible on the surface. ...[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: | 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 |
| Project Title: | Úlfarsá |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=82 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | Six evaluation trenches were excavated in three different sites in advance of construction plan in Úlfarsárdalur, Reykjavík....[More] |
| Project Title: | Undir Junkarinsfløtti |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=15 |
| Country: | Faroe Islands |
| Description: | Excavations of this extensive coastal erosion site occurred between 2003 and 2007. ...[More] |
| Keywords: | Faroes,Norse,coastal,erosion |
| Project Title: | Útskálar |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=78 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | Archaeological evaluation took place at the site of the farm mound in Útskálar due to building construction plans. Later limited excavation was carried out in the farm mound. Post ex work is still in progress. ...[More] |
| Project Title: | Útskalar |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=225 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Region: | Southwest Iceland |
| Description: | Between 2005 and 2006 archaeologists from Fornleifastofnun Íslands (Icelandic Institute of Archaeology) conducted excavations at the coastal site of Útskalar, located on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Southwest Iceland. The site's material remains are un...[More] |
| Keywords: | Zooarcheology, faunal remains, Útskalar, Iceland |
| Project Title: | Vaktarabær |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=107 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | During the renovation of a house in central Reykjavík, called Vaktarabær, it was considered necessary to monitor construction work to avoid damaging archaeology. Trenches were dug to evaluate the extent of cultural remains....[More] |
| 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: | Vígðalaug |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=40 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Region: | Árnessýsla |
| Description: | Archaeological investigation was requested before Vígðalaug (consecrated pool) was repaired before the celebration of the 1000 year anniversary of Christianity in Iceland....[More] |
| 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 |
| Project Title: | Þingvallakirkja |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=45 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | Archaeological investigations have been carried out a couple of times next to Þingvellir church at the request of the Þingvellir National Park committee. The aim of the first one in 1999 was to look for clues about the predecessors of the modern chu...[More] |
| Project Title: | Þórutóftir |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=85 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | An erosion face was cleaned and recorded in Þórutóftir northeast of Hofsjökull glacier. ...[More] |
| Project Title: | Þverá in Öxarfjörður |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=66 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | An archaeological assessment was carried out in the land of Þverá, Öxarfjörður, in advance of road construction plans. ...[More] |