Vestfirdhir (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bjarne Grønnow. Morten Meldgaard. J B Nielsen.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Kiliii Yu.

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DATASET Thomas McGovern. Colin Amundsen.

Access database of the Akurvik archaeofaunal remains.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Colin Amundsen. Sophia Perdikaris. Thomas McGovern. Matthew Matthew Brown. Yekaterina Krivogorskaya. Salina Modugno. Konrad Śmiarowski. Shaye Storm. Malgorzata Frik. Monica Koczela. Thomas McGovern.

This is a report of analysis of 15th c bone materials from the site of Akurvík in NW Iceland excavated in 1990. A small international project in Árneshreppur district recovered a series of stratified midden deposits associated with small turf structures on an eroding beachfront. Radiocarbon dates identify at least two major phases of occupation and use, one extending into the mid 13th century, and the other dating to the mid 15th century. This report documents the animal bone collection...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Albína Hulda Pálsdóttir. Marjorie Gorsline. Thomas McGovern.

The Vatnsfjörður archaeological project started in 2003. This report contains results of analysis of bones from 2003-2007. Analysis has been completed on the material from 2003 and 2004 but is only partially complete on bones from 2005-2007. This is the second preliminary report of the archaeofauna from the Vatnsfjörður excavation. Analysis is still ongoing and the results presented here are by no means final. The Vatnsfjörður material dates to two time periods, the Viking Age component and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gavin Lucas.

This paper explores the process of ruination in terms of networks and channels of dispersal; how the materiality of a whole village is stripped by various agencies which move things along. Drawing especially on recent work in human geography and new mobility and materiality turn, this study takes an industrial fishing village on an island in the bay of Reykjavík to examine the processes and conduits through which the village is de-materialized. The village was established at the beginning of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Þ Pétursdóttir.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Gavin M. Lucas.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Governance and Globalization in the North Atlantic", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper explores the way the Bishop's seat of Skálholt in south Iceland managed its diocese during the 17th and 18th centuries and especially, its role in mediating the global and the local through its administrative structure. Drawing on both the rich archaeological research at the site and a wealth of documentary...

DATASET Thomas McGovern.

Access Database of 2004 Eyri archaeofauna.

DATASET Ramona Harrison.

Access database resulting from analysis of Eyri 2007 faunal remains.

DATASET Thomas McGovern.

Access database - Finnbogastadir faunal analysis.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Magnus Rafnsson. Ragnar Edvardsson.

This is a report of the excavations at Strákatangi in Strandasýsla in 2008. Continuous excavations since 2005 have revealed extensive remains from foreign whalers in the area. The remains of four structures are visible at the Strákatangi site, three of them are clustered together and the fourth at some distance from the main cluster. The three structures that have been excavated from 2005 are tryworks, a large building with three rooms (habitation) and one smaller building...

DATASET Thomas McGovern.

NABO Excel File containing the basic data for Gjogur archaeofauna.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ulla Odgaard.

This article offers a methodological approach to study hearth features in general. The hearths of the Paleo-Eskimo tradition are often well preserved, which makes it possible to interpret which heating processes took place and their effects on the indoor climate of the dwelling. To obtain this type of information, recording of fire-cracked rocks within and in connection to hearths is of special importance. The Paleo-Eskimos made use of a versatile pyro-technology, adjustable to the most extreme...

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The excavations at Hrísheimar have now been in progress for four years. The focus of the work for the first two years was more on surveying and test trenching for assessment than large scale excavation. In 2003 and 2004 the work increased with the opening of two large excavation areas. In 2003 there were two main excavation areas; one was approximately 60 m west of the farm mound; the other was just by the farm mound on its eastern side. The areas were individually sub-divided and each was given...

DATASET Shelley Waxman. Davide Zori.

Dataset of 31 statuses (positions) found in the archaeological and historical literature on the Iceland from settlement (ca. 920 AD) to the period of Christianity (ca. 1260 AD). For each status, the expected roles and actual behaviors are listed, as are the rank (relative position) and bases for legitimacy or anyone holding the given status. Additional information on the society or status-holders' roles/behaviors are given as are all references from which the information came.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gavin Lucas. Angelos Parigoris.

This paper revolves around a central dilemma: whether to see Iceland as colonizer or colonized. On the one hand, it was linked to the Danish project of colonialism outside Europe, benefitting from access to exotic goods and influenced by ideologies of race and whiteness. On the other hand, Iceland was itself a dependency of Denmark, and from the nineteenth century, developed a discourse of nationalism and independence. This paper will examine the tensions of Iceland as colonizer/colonized...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ulla Odgaard.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Ramona Harrison.

In June and August 2008 international teams cooperated in carrying out a program of survey, coring, and small scale test excavation on selected sites in the Eyjafjord region in Northern Iceland. This was the first season of a planned multi-season collaborative investigation of the hinterlands surrounding the medieval seasonal trading center at Gásir (Roberts 2004; Roberts et al, 2002- 2006; Harrison et al 2006 – 2008; Harrison, 2006-2008). Prior work at Gásir indicated that this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ágústa Edwald Maxwell.

This is an abstract from the "Working on the 19th-Century" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper will look at the material culture of the kitchen in 19th-century Iceland through probate inventories and ceramic assemblages. It hypothesizes that changes in kitchen assemblages had an active role in the modernization process. Rather than simply being the effects of increased consumerism and global capitalism the things had an active influence on...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Megan T. Hicks.

During the 2002 season of the Landscapes of Settlement Project (directed by Fornleifastofnun ĺslands with the NABO cooperative) we carried out coring and test trenching to attempt to localize midden deposits at the site of Höftagerði on the property of Núpar on the lower Laxá River. The site comprises a set of impressive boundary walls, a number of detached structures (A-D) scattered across the S E face of a bluff overlooking the Laxá, and a small farm mound (J) near a modern...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ulla Odgaard.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Gavin M. Lucas.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Poverty And Plenty In The North", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper explores the tension between moveable and immoveable wealth among different households and communities in postmedieval iceland. Drawing on archaeological research at several sites dating to the 17th and 18th centuries, the connections between human and object mobilities will be explored in relation to issues of social mobility in a...

PROJECT CUNY Northern Science and Education Center. Thomas McGovern.

This project file contains NABO publications. NABO was founded over 20 years ago to attempt to cross-cut national and disciplinary boundaries and to help North Atlantic scholars make the most of the immense research potential of our damp and lovely research area. NABO has worked to aid in improving basic data comparability, in assisting practical fieldwork and interdisciplinary ventures, in promoting student training, and in better communicating our findings to other scholars, funding...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jakob O. Jonsson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Poverty And Plenty In The North", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This presentation will introduce some of the results of the presenter’s recent Doctoral dissertation which explored questions surrounding the consumption of imported goods in Iceland during its Monopoly Trade Period, which has been seen as a time of economic stagnation and material impoverishment while under the rule of a foreign power, by...