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The abstract and the PDF file have been kindly provided by Maria Maily who retains copyright. Maily, M. (2023) Landscape Recreation of Viking-Age Iceland. University of Edinburgh, Unpublished MSc Dissertation. 36 pp. Abstract As Norse sailors settled in Iceland, they were faced with a land of ice, fire and forests. Yet Iceland’s landscape is now well-known for lacking ...

Environmental controls on tephra layer morphology

Grace Cesario (2021) Marine Resource Specialization in Viking Age Iceland: Exploitation of Seabirds and Fish on Hegranes in Skagafjörður. Hunter College of the City University of New York, Unpublished PhD Thesis. 399 pp.

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 Unpublished PhD thesis. 416 pp.

Megan Hicks (2019) Commmunity, Ecology, and Modernity: Faunal Analysis of Skútustaðir in Mývatnssveit, Northern Iceland. Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY Academic Works), Unpublished PhD Thesis. 261 pp.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 Hunter College of the City University of New York, Unpublished MA Thesis. 60 pp.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.

Nikola Trbojević (2016) The Impact of Settlement on Woodland Resources in Viking Age Iceland. University of Iceland, Unpublished PhD thesis. 261 pp.

Rebecca Barclay (2016) Formation, cultural use and management of Icelandic wet meadows – a palaeoenvironmental interpretation. University of Stirling, Unpublished PhD thesis. 251 pp.

Ramona Harrison (2013) World systems and human ecodynamics in medieval Eyjafjorthur, north Iceland : Gasir and its hinterlands. City University of New York. Unpublished PhD thesis. 486 pp. Featured image: NABO | All Rights Reserved

BOLD, RACHAEL (2012) Norse Utilisation of Archaeobotanical Resources within the Myvatnssveit locale, Northern Iceland. Masters thesis, Durham University. Copyright of this thesis is held by the author.

Richard Streeter (2012) Tephrochronology, landscape and population: impacts of plague on medieval Iceland. The University of Edinburgh, Unpublished PhD Thesis. 244 pp.

This report outlines the research that was conducted over the course of one week in late June, 2008. A total of five réttir – sheep folds – were surveyed using a Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS). Each réttir displayed a variety of forms, and different uses of local materials, and these results will be used ...

This paper contributes to recent studies exploring the longue durée of human impacts on island landscapes, the impacts of climate and other environmental changes on human communities, and the interaction of human societies and their environments at different spatial and temporal scales. In particular, the paper addresses Iceland during the medieval period (with a secondary, ...

Landscapes of Settlement in Northern Iceland: Historical Ecology of Human Impact and Climate Fluctuation on the Millennial Scale THOMAS H. McGOVERN, ORRI VÉSTEINSSON, ADOLF FRIĐRIKSSON, MIKE CHURCH, IAN LAWSON, IAN A. SIMPSON, ARNI EINARSSON, ANDY DUGMORE, GORDON COOK, SOPHIA PERDIKARIS, KEVIN J. EDWARDS, AMANDA M. THOMSON, W. PAUL ADDERLEY, ANTHONY NEWTON, GAVIN LUCAS, RAGNAR EDVARDSSON, OSCAR ALDRED, ELAINE DUNBAR  First published: March 2007 https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.2007.109.1.27 Citations: 140  Abstract Early settlement in the North Atlantic produced complex interactions of culture and ...

The Kids Archaeology Program (Fornleifaskóli barnanna) is an educational and developmental project that started in 2007, based in Þingeyjarsýslur County in North East Iceland. The founders of the project are Litlulaugaskóli (local elementary school in North East Iceland) and Narfastaðir Guesthouse. The overall goal of the project is to connect different enterprises, institutions, and individuals in ...

The 15th century commercial fishing station at Gufuskálar is anomalous among fishing stations in Iceland – at least those have been excavated thus far. Rich in imported artifacts and well-provisioned with expensive foods the fishers at Gufuskálar were clearly not only impoverished tenant farmer/fishers as was often the case in better documented early modern times. ...

The Skagafjörður Archaeological Settlement Survey (SASS) project surveyed the Langholt region, in Skagafjörður, northern Iceland between 2001 and 2014 (Figure 1, Figure 2). Major excavations of Stóra-Seyla took place in 2008 and 2009 (Bolender 2008; Bolender et al. 2009). Stóra-Seyla is one of two settlement period farms located in the Langholt region of Skagafjörður (Bolender ...

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 ...

This is a preliminary report on the 2013 field season at Skuggi. The 2013 Skuggi midden and structural excavations are a continuation of work started there in 2008 and 2009. In a continued effort to investigate the long term Eyjafjörður Human Ecodynamics, an international team cooperated in carrying out a program of survey, coring, and ...

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 ...

This report presents preliminary zooarchaeological results from the Viking Age and medieval midden deposits at the Oddstaðir farm ruins. Beyond providing a long term chronology on site management and farm economy, this site has produced faunal remains dating from the 13th to the late 14th c., contemporaneous with those found at the Gásir trading site ...

The site of the fishing station Gufuskálar is located on the northern side of the western tip of Snæfellsnes peninsula in the West of Iceland. It sits at the shore of the Atlantic ocean which causes a major threat to the site. A dominant feature in the landscape is the cone-shaped 1446m high glacier Snæfellsjökull, ...

In summer of 2008 and 2009, an excavation team led by the author and Howell M. Roberts (FSI) investigated the potential for midden remains at Myrkárdalur, a farm ruin site situated in a highland area in the most interior part of a minor valley system in Hörgárdalur, Eyjafjörður. The results of these exercises were two ...

The Kids Archaeology Program (Fornleifaskóli barnanna) is an educational and developmental project that started in 2007, based in Þingeyjarsýslur County in North East Iceland. The founders of the project are Litlulaugaskóli (local elementary school in North East Iceland) and Narfastaðir Guesthouse. The overall goal of the project is to connect different enterprises, institutions, and individuals in ...

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 ...