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| Project Title: | Akurvik Excavations 1990 |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=7 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Region: | Strandir |
| Description: | The site of Akurvik was discovered by Haukur Johanneson in 1987 when beach erosion exposed a series of midden deposits and what proved to be a series of small turf walled booth structures superposed over an 18 m long erosion face at the small embayme...[More] |
| Keywords: | Iceland,Fishing,Medieval,,Fishing,Station,Zooarchaeology,NW,Iceland,Strandasysla |
| Project Title: | Arnórsstaðamúli |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=117 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | A site close to Arnórsstaðamúli, E-Iceland, was threatened by imminent roadworks and a preliminary excavation demanded by the National Heritage Agency. ...[More] |
| Project Title: | Assembly sites Assembly sites |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=58 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | The project Assembly sites (Þinghald til forna) aims to revaluate all known assembly sites in Iceland, many of which had been mapped by antiquarians in the 19th and early 20th centuries . The purpose is to shed new light on the age, layout, and func...[More] |
| Project Title: | Barbuda Historical Ecology Project Barbuda Historical Ecology Project |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=133 |
| Country: | Antigua and Barbuda |
| Region: | Barbuda |
| Description: | This project is a multi-disciplinary longitudinal research effort focusing on the island of Barbuda from first human settlement through to the present day. The goal of the project is to investigate human/environment interactions on the island of Barb...[More] |
| Keywords: | Caribbean, Longitudinal Research, Community Outreach, Paleoclimatology, Paleobotany, Zooarchaeology |
| Project Title: | Brekka and Daðastaðir in Núpasveit |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=79 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | Evaluation trenching took place prior to road construction in Daðastaðir and Brekka, Núpasveit (NE Iceland) in two sites, several kilometres apart. ...[More] |
| 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: | Dettifoss |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=106 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | In advance of road construction near Dettifoss, N-Iceland, some archaeological sites in Þingeyjarsýsla had to be investigated....[More] |
| Project Title: | Evaluation of Archaeoentomology for Reconstructing Rural Life-Ways and the Process of Modernisation in Iceland |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=180 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | This project was initiated with Véronique Forbes's PhD dissertation at the University of Aberdeen 'Evaluation of Archaeoentomology for Reconstructing Rural Life-Ways and the Process of Modernisation in 19th and Early 20th-Century Iceland' (2013). The...[More] |
| Keywords: | Archaeoentomology, Modernization, Iceland |
| Project Title: | Finnbogastadir Rescue Excavation 1990 |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=5 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | In 1990 construction work around the modern farm house at Finnbogastadir (Arneshreppur, Strandasysla, NW Iceland) hit a stratified midden deposit that produced substantial amounts of well preserved bone and artifacts dating to the 18th to early 19th ...[More] |
| Keywords: | Iceland,Fishing,Zooarchaeology,Strandasysla,Finnbogastadir,Early,Modern |
| Project Title: | Fluorine poisoning in victims of the 1793-84 eruption of the Laki fissure |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=116 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | The eruption of the Laki fissure was the greatest calamity to affect Iceland since its settlement. It is estimated that 20% of the population died from starvation and disease. The aim of this project is to investigate causes of death in people wh...[More] |
| Project Title: | From Iceland to New Iceland. The Archaeology of 19th-century Emigration |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=124 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Region: | Höfðaströnd, Skagafjörður |
| Description: | The project is apart of Agusta Edwald's current PhD research project at the Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen. The project is supervised by Dr. Karen Milek and Dr. Jeff Oliver. It aims to shed light on the experience of Icelandic immi...[More] |
| Keywords: | 19th-century,,emigration,,Iceland,,New,Iceland |
| Project Title: | Gjogur Excavations 1990 |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=6 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Region: | Strandir |
| Description: | The site of Gjogur is a substantial farm mound now associated with a small boat landing. Gjogur is historically known to be an early settlement, and the deeply stratified midden deposits sampled in 1990 indicate a long period of occupation. The 1990 ...[More] |
| Keywords: | Iceland,Strandasysla,Zooarchaeology,Fishing,Early,Modern,Medieval,NW,Iceland |
| 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: | Hagrie's Böd |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=11 |
| Country: | Scotland |
| Description: | From the early sixteenth century, perhaps even from the second decade of the fifteenth century, ships from north Germany made there way across the north Atlantic to Shetland. The main item of trade for the Hanseatic traders was dried fish which was o...[More] |
| Keywords: | Hanseatic League,trade,fish,sitophilus,granarius |
| 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: | Hólsfjöll |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=96 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | Trenches were excavated at two alleged farmsites in Hólsfjöll, N-Þingeyjarsýsla. The area lies at about 350-450 m above sea level and is one of the highest inhabited areas in Iceland. ...[More] |
| Project Title: | Hringsdalur |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=99 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | In 2006 human bones were found eroding in Hringsdalur W-Iceland. An excavation was conducted and two pagan burials uncovered....[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: | Dog Island Environmental Archeology Landscape and Subsistence of Dog Island, Labrador |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=16 |
| Country: | Canada |
| Description: | This ongoing project has been conducted since 2005 and survey and excavations at six sites, Oakes Bay 1 (or Parngnertok HeCg-08, Koliktalik 6 (HdCg-23), Evilik Bay (HeCg-04), September Harbour (HdCg-15), and Itibliarsuk (HdCg-57). Field seasons in 2...[More] |
| Keywords: | Labrador, Nunatsiavut, Dog Island, environmental archaeology, settlement patterns, sea ice |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | Pagan Burial Maps |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=155 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Region: | all over Iceland |
| Description: | Maps of Pagan Burials in Iceland developed through arcgis software and uploaded on Google Earth. In essence, the focus of this project was to create individual maps considerably zoomed in, showing not only the burials but also the landscape features...[More] |
| Keywords: | burials,maps,pagan |
| Project Title: | Pagan burials Pagan burials |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=70 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | Although many pagan graves have been found in Iceland, organised search for such sites has hitherto not been conducted and most have been found by coincidence. In some cases bones and artefacts have been picked up without the site being investigated...[More] |
| Project Title: | Palaeoanthropocene in Iceland |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=219 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | This project used published and new records of vegetation change and soil erosion from all of Iceland to look at the timing, extent and rate of change in natural systems at Landnám. This dataset was used to investigate the what extent it was possible...[More] |
| Keywords: | Comparative Island Ecodynamics, anthropocene, pollen, tephra, soil erosion, Landnám |
| 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: | Skálholt |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=62 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | The project's overall aims encompass a full investigation and presentation of the latter centuries (17th-19th) of settlement at Skálholt, as it was prior to its abandonment after an earthquake in 1784 and at the height of its cultural influence in Ic...[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: | Snow modelling Hörgardalur |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=218 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | This is the northern Iceland field site for the snow modelling in Iceland project. Fieldwork in March 2014 collected measurements of snow depth and density near the archaeological site of Skuggi. These measurements along with LANDSAT imagery is us...[More] |
| Keywords: | Comparative Island Ecodynamics, snow, Little Ice Age |
| Project Title: | Snow modelling Skaftártunga |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=217 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | This is the southern Iceland field site for the snow modelling in Iceland project. Fieldwork in March 2014 collected measurements of snow depth and density at the farms of Hrifunes and Búland. These measurements along with LANDSAT imagery is used ...[More] |
| Keywords: | Comparative Island Ecodynamics, snow, Little Ice Age |
| 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: Fieldwork in Norway |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=132 |
| Country: | Norway |
| Region: | Heidal |
| Description: | Fieldwork from project: Snow, landscape and people: Modelling variations in snow distribution and melt across the landscape and the implications for human activities. Snow surveys were completed in Heidal valley, Oppland, along three discontinuous...[More] |
| Keywords: | snow,melt,vegetation,climate |
| 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: | Sómastaðagerði |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=67 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | An archaeological evaluation was carried out at Sómastaðagerði and Hraun in Reyðarfjörður on behalf of Alcoa Primary Metals. This was done in advance of construction, and represents the first stage of a process of investigation required to meet the ...[More] |
| 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: | Gásir Hinterlands Project Study of local subsistence and trans-Atlantic regional trading economy in medieval Iceland |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=9 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | Goal of this project is to gain a better understanding of the interaction of local subsistence and trans-Atlantic regional trading economy in medieval Iceland by collecting faunal materials and other environmental data from deeply stratified middens ...[More] |
| Keywords: | Trade,Exchange,Zooarchaeology,Gásir,midden,excavations |
| Project Title: | Survey of archaeological remains at Svínanes, Iceland |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=157 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Region: | Reykhólahreppur |
| Keywords: | Iceland, trading site |
| Project Title: | Svalbarð revisited |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=102 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | In 1986 and 1988 midden excavations took place in Svalbarð, N-Þingeyjarsýsla, revealing one of the largest faunal collections up to that point in Iceland. The results were instrumental in the development of methods and models for reconstructing pala...[More] |
| Project Title: | Tephrochronology and landscape change in Skaftartunga |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=129 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Region: | Skaftartunga |
| Description: | This project used very high resolution sediment accumulation records to analyse the environmental impact of population changes in this region of Iceland since Landnam, and finished in 2011. The main results are in Richard Streeter's PhD thesis and in...[More] |
| Keywords: | tephrochronology,little,ice,age,plague,geomorphology,population |
| Project Title: | The Archaeology of Climate Change in the Caribbean The Archaeology of Climate Change in the Caribbean |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=153 |
| Country: | Cuba |
| Region: | Caribbean |
| Description: | Pre-Colombian populations in the Caribbean, from 5000 BC to AD 1492, lived through more than five metres relative sea level rise, marked variation in annual rainfall and periodic intensification of hurricane activity. This Leverhulme funded project ...[More] |
| Keywords: | Caribbean, Climate Variability, Environmental Change, Hazards, |
| Project Title: | Eyjafjallajokull 2010- the formations of an enduring record The ash-fall from the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland: The formation of an environmental record, natural and cultural impacts |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=125 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Region: | Eyjafjallajökull |
| Description: | This project will hold workshops to establish the best way to study the transformations and impacts of the volcanic ash fall from 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland. This eruption offers a once-in-a-generation opportunity to create a new unde...[More] |
| Keywords: | Eruption,Eyjafjallajökull,Iceland,tephra,impacts,environment, |
| Project Title: | The Assembly Project - Meeting-places in Northern Europe AD 400-1500 The Assembly Project - Meeting-places in Northern Europe AD 400-1500 |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=126 |
| Country: | Other |
| Description: | The Assembly Project – Meeting-places in Northern Europe AD 400-1500 (TAP) is an international collaborative research project. TAP aims to investigate the role of assemblies (things) in the creation of collective identities and emergent kingdom...[More] |
| Keywords: | thing, assembly, Norse, Iceland, Shetland, Norway |
| Project Title: | OITIS The Operation of International Trade in Iceland and Shetland c. 1400-1700 |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=12 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | The project will examine the development, operation and impact of European trade in two areas in the north Atlantic - Iceland and Shetland. In the early 15th century both were part of the Danish kingdom but, with the pledging of Shetland in 1469, it ...[More] |
| Keywords: | Hanseatic League,trade,fish,Middle Ages,post-medieval |
| 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: | 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 |
| 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] |
| Project Title: | Vígðalaug |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=40 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Region: | Árnessýsla |
| Description: | Archaeological investigation was requested before Vígðalaug (consecrated pool) was repaired before the celebration of the 1000 year anniversary of Christianity in Iceland....[More] |
| Project Title: | Zooarchaeology of the Skagafjörður Archaeological Settlement Survey (SASS) |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=227 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Region: | Skagafjörður |
| Description: | The Skagafjörður Archaeological Settlement Survey (SASS) examined the settlement pattern of Langholt, Skagafjörður, northern Iceland. Later creation of smaller farms through subdivision of larger, earlier settlements seems to have aided in the creati...[More] |
| Keywords: | zooarchaeology, Skagafjörður |
| Project Title: | Þjórsárdalur |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=56 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | One of the aims of the project "Vestnordisk byggeskik i vikingtid og middelalder" was to revaluate the archaeology of Þjórárdalur which has held a central place in Icelandic archaeology for one and a half century. Knowledge is hitherto based on surv...[More] |