14 results for projects related to 'Greenland' |
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: | 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: | The Norse Settlement in the Vatnahverfi Region, South Greenland c. AD 985 - c. AD 1450 Greenland - The Vatnahverfi Project - Settlement, economy, and depopulation. |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=17 |
Country: | Greenland |
Description: | The aim of the programme is to discuss landnam (landtaking) strategies and the later depopulation in the light of the interplay between the two economic spheres of the Norse Greenland Economy: subsistence based on the resources of the local, settled ...[More] |
Keywords: | Norse,Eastern,Settlement,Vatnahverfi,Settlement,Structure,Economy,Identity,Mobility,Communication |
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: | Norse Greenland dietary project Norse Greenland dietary project - Norse Greenland isotope project |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=18 |
Country: | Greenland |
Description: | An initial study of the d13 C values for human bone collagen of 27 Norse Greenlanders in the late 1990's suggested a change in the Norse diet from predominantly terrestrial food to predominantly marine food. The shift may indicate a change in diet;...[More] |
Keywords: | Greenland,Norse,diet,isotopes, |
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: | 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: | Snow Modelling Iceland Snow modelling to understand the impacts of Little Ice Age climate change |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=215 |
Country: | Other |
Description: | This project aims to use an existing process based snow model to simulate changes in snow cover and distribution for sites in Iceland and in Greenland. Changes in the duration and depth of snow cover through periods of climatic deterioration may have...[More] |
Keywords: | Comparative Island Ecodynamics, modelling, LIttle Ice Age, snow |
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: | 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: | 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 |