| 13 results for projects related to 'church' |
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| 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: | 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: | Hegranes Zooarchaeology Project Hegranes Zooarchaeology Project |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=230 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Region: | Skagafjörður |
| Description: | This project focuses on the zooarchaeology of Hegranes, in Skagafjörður. Partnered with the Skagafjörður Church and Settlement Survey (SCASS, http://blogs.umb.edu/scass/) and the Fornbýli Landscape and Archaeological Survey on Hegranes (FLASH, http:/...[More] |
| Keywords: | Iceland, zooarchaeology, marine adaptations, settlement patterns, abandonment |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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] |