The Siglunes Archaeofauna, I. Report of the Viking Age and Medieval Faunal Remains

The Siglunes site encompasses a Settlement Era (ca. AD 871) farm mound located on mainland and a series of eroding fishing structures found along the southern and western coasts of the peninsula protruding to the west from the mainland area. The site may have been occupied continuously through the post-medieval period and the last permanent Siglunes inhabitants moved away from the site in the 1970s.

The Siglunes rescue and excavation project in the far North of Eyjafjörður is a NABO collaboration with currently four team members from the Archaeological Institute Iceland and the CUNY Graduate School and University Center. The first two seasons in 2011 and 2012 were small team site investigations in preparation for larger projects in the future. The archaeological project builds on survey work done in the whole Siglufjörður district in 2004 and 2006 when the poor preservation state of some of the remaining Siglunes structures due to coastal erosion was detected, resulting in the currently ongoing rescue and research excavation project (http://northatlanticherc.gc.cuny.edu/?page_id=20).

Archaeofauna Archaeology Eyjafjörður Fish Iceland Medieval Siglunes tephrochronology Viking Age zooarchaeology

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