7 results for projects related to 'Fjord' |
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: | 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: | Modelling changes in the coastal geomorphology of Unst, Shetland and the implications for understanding High to Late Medieval harbour changes in the Scandinavian North Atlantic |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=222 |
Country: | Scotland |
Region: | Unst, Shetland Islands |
Description: | This sub-project is part of the SP5 Geomorphology section of the HaNoA project. The geomorphological setting of Norse harbours in the Atlantic is variable, with contrasting landform stability over short, medium and long time scales. Here we asses...[More] |
Keywords: | Geormorphology, Unst, Shetland, Coastal, Harbour, Landing site, Norse, Viking, Erosion, Beach, |
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: | 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: | 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: | 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] |