Archaeology

Brenda Prehal (2020) Handbook for the Deceased: Re-Evaluating Literature and Folklore in Icelandic Archaeology. City University of New York. Unpublished PhD thesis. 416 pp.

Wendi K. Coleman (2019) Hrísheimar: Fish Consumption Patterns. Hunter College of the City University of New York, Unpublished MA Thesis. 60 pp.

Magdalena M. E. Schmid (2018) Archaeological Applications of Radiocarbon Chronologies and Statistical Models: Dating the Viking Age Settlement of Iceland (Landnám). University of Iceland, PhD thesis. 171 pp.

Colin P. Amundsen (2008) Culture Contact, Ethnicity and Food Practices of Coastal Finnmark, Norway (1200 to 1600 A.D.). The City University of New York, Unpublished PhD Thesis. 473 pp.

Kerry-Anne Mairs (2007) Islands and human impact: Under what circumstances do people put unsustainable demands on island environments? Evidence from the North Atlantic. University of Edinburgh, Unpublished PhD Thesis. 398 pp.

Eileen Colligan (2006) Newfoundland Dorset Endblades: Measuring Regional Variation. Hunter College, City University of New York, Unpublished Masters thesis. 206 pp.

Anthony Newton (1999) Ocean-transported pumice in the North Atlantic. University of Edinburgh, Unpublished PhD thesis. 414 pp.

Excavation has revealed that the site is a multi-period settlement mound dating from the Iron Age through to the Pictish period and probably to the Viking period and the Westness Viking houses, which we have now shown overlie part of the site. Key to the project has been the adoption of three-dimensional (3D) recording, using ...

Researchers, students, and all affiliated personnel (hereafter participants) engaged in research projects either conducted by NABO, or in which NABO is an organizing partner will adhere to the Code of Conduct for the duration of research in the field.

Three new papers are out in Quaternary International, and one of these led by George Hambrecht leads a paper looking into distributed long-term datasets from archaeological sites. Quaternary International: Circumpolar Human-Environment Special Issue (2020)

Birgit Maixner: Haithabu. Fernhandelszentrum zwischen den Welten. Begleitband zur Ausstellung im Wikinger Museum Haithabu. Archäologisches Landesmuseum. Schloss Gottorf. Schleswig 2010 (Haithabu – A long‐distance trading‐center between two worlds). Reviewed by Christian Keller

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 ...

The 2001 summer season saw the conclusion of intensive excavation of the midden unit M opened in 1999. The unit has produced a very substantial collection of well preserved animal bone, , and over 75 registered artifacts of the Viking period. The final season involved the excavation of a major western extension of the original ...

The 2001 excavations of a Viking -Age hall at Aðalstræti 14-16 in downtown Reykjavík produced a small and highly fragmented collection of burned animal bone. The bone collection derived from the hall floor layers and was recovered through flotation and retention of 1 mm mesh sink fraction. Approximately 3 % of the collection could be identified, ...

Excavation has revealed that the site is a multi-period settlement mound dating from the Iron Age through to the Pictish period and probably to the Viking period and the Westness Viking houses, which we have now shown overlie part of the site. Key to the project has been the adoption of three-dimensional (3D) recording, using ...

Researchers, students, and all affiliated personnel (hereafter participants) engaged in research projects either conducted by NABO, or in which NABO is an organizing partner will adhere to the Code of Conduct for the duration of research in the field.

NABONE Fish Originally available on a CD, FISHBONE 1.1 Identification Manual for Gadid Fish in the N Atlantic (Sophia Perdikaris, Yekaterina Krivogorskaya, Tom McGovern and Pirjo Lahtiperä, 2004) is a comprehensive collection of data, including numerous images of bones from Gadid fish found in archaeological sites throughout the North Atlantic region.

Búmodel: an environmental simulation model of historical land management in the North Atlantic Búmodel is an environmental simulation model that facilitates the integration of landscape ecology, environmental archaeology and historical analysis. The purpose of the model is to predict spatial and temporal patterns of vegetation biomass and production and utilisation (grazing, hay making) in a historical ...