8 results for projects related to 'coastal' |
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: | 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: | 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: | Orkney: Gateway to the Atlantic Rousay, Orkney: Gateway to the Atlantic |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=141 |
Country: | Scotland |
Region: | Orkney |
Description: | This project forms part of the Orkney Gateway to the Atlantic project. The core aim of this research initiative is to inform on sustainability and reliance strategies in the past, investigating how people (and society) reacted and adapted to climatic...[More] |
Keywords: | sustainability, reliance, multiperiod, coastal erosion |
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 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: | 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: | 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 |