| 9 results for projects related to 'Myvatn' |
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| 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: | 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: | 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: | Mývatn Landscapes Project Landscapes of Settlement and Change: Long term human ecodynamics in Mývatnssveit |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=2 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Keywords: | Iceland,ecodynamics,historical,ecology,Myvatn |
| Project Title: | Medieval farm sites trenched in Mývatnssveit |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=111 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | This part of the Landscapes of Settlement project aims to do prelimiary trenching in several sites in the Mývatn area to acquire dates for settlements, both their establishment and abandonment....[More] |
| Project Title: | Midden in Skútustađir |
| 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 Skútustađir, south of lake Mývatn. Please note this record will not be updated further and up to date details about Skútust...[More] |
| Project Title: | Skútustađir Excavation |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=3 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Region: | Mývatnssveit |
| Description: | Skútustađir 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: | 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: | 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] |