Hofstaðir

Amanda Thomson (2003) A modelling approach to farm management and vegetation degradation in pre-modern Iceland. PhD Thesis, University of Stirling, Stirling, 301 pp.

In 2011 a midden deposit was excavated just outside the churchyard wall at the medieval Christian cemetery at Hofstaðir in the Mývatn Lake Basin area of northern Iceland. This deposit rests on a volcanic tephra H 1300 and has produced two AMS C14 dates from terrestrial diet cattle bone that suggest the archaeofauna was formed ...

Early stages of the investigations at Hofstaðir directed by the Archaeological Institute Iceland revealed that substantial amounts of well-preserved animal bone were present in contexts throughout the site, with a major concentration in the fill of the large sunken featured structure G. The site directors kindly involved the NABO zooarchaeologists (led through various seasons by ...

In 2006 a campaign of major archaeological excavations in Mývatnssveit – the area around Lake Mývatn in NE-Iceland – wound to a close with the completion of fieldwork at Hrísheimar and Sveigakot. Together with the excavation of Hofstaðir, which was completed in 2002, these formed the backbone of extensive archaeological fieldwork focused on the Mývatn ...

During the 2002 field season of the Landscapes of Settlement Project (directed by Fornleifastofnun ĺslands with collaboration by the NABO cooperative) the CUNY team was tasked to locate midden deposits surviving around the medieval to early modern farm mound on the southern side of the home field and assess their prospects for further excavation. Two ...

n 1996, 1999 and 2000 the Fornleifastofnun lslands (Archaeological Institute Iceland, FSl) excavations at the site of Hofstaðir in the Mývatn district recovered nine domestic cattle skulls and one sheep skull sheep in contexts suggesting that they had been displayed outside the great hall structure for some time before being removed during the dismantling of the hall ...