| 24 results for projects related to 'landscape' |
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| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | Heart of the Atlantic Heart of the Atlantic: cultural landscapes of Sandoy, Faroe Islands |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=14 |
| Country: | Faroe Islands |
| Description: | This inter-disciplinary project investigates the changing cultural and natural landscapes on the island of Sandoy, from first settlement to modern time. Archaeological investigations are focusing on the extensive excavations at Undir Junkarinsflötti,...[More] |
| Keywords: | Faroes,archaeology |
| 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: | Hofstaðir |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=41 |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Description: | The Hofstaðir project aimed at re-excavating and re-evaluating Viking Age remains previously investigated in 1908. This project was the flag-ship project for the Landscape of Settlements project....[More] |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: Fieldwork in Sweden |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=131 |
| Country: | Sweden |
| Region: | Abisko |
| Description: | Fieldwork from project: Snow, landscape and people: Modelling variations in snow distribution and melt across the landscape and the implications for human activities. Method: Snow depth and density were measured in the pre-snow melt period from ...[More] |
| Keywords: | snow,distribution,vegetation |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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 |