Reykjavik (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.

Excel workbook with spreadsheets and charts by TMG.

DATASET Ramona Harrison.

Database for the Adalstraeti 10 faunal remains.

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ramona Harrison. Marjorie Gorsline. Megan Hicks. Elise Alexander. Frank Feeley. Slobodan Mitrovic.

In 2005, Archaeological excavations at the site of Aðalstræti in downtown Reykjavík were carried out under direction of Mjöll Snæsdóttir and Howell M. Roberts from the Archaeological Institute of Iceland (FSÍ). Reason for these archaeological activities was a planned rebuilding and reparation of the house at Aðalstræti 10, whose building date falls into the latter half of the 18 th Century (Snæsdóttir, 2005 – English translation). Phase one of the investigations involved a series...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Konrad Śmiarowski.

This is a preliminary report of archaeological field work in the Vatnahverfi region of the Norse Eastern Settlement. The Danish Middle Ages & Renaissance Department at The Danish National Museum and the Greenland National Museum and Archives (NKA) collaborated with the Northern Science and Education Center at City University of New York (NORSEC/CUNY) to complete an archaeological project in Southwestern Greenland, in the Qaqortoq Municipality. The work was completed between July...

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ragnar Edvarsson. Thomas McGovern.

The excavations at Hrísheimar have now been in progress for five years (2000-05) and this report presents the preliminary results of the 2005 season. The site area is at the edge of the active erosion front in this part of Mývatnssveit, and clearly much of the original land surface and archaeological deposits have been destroyed completely by wind erosion. However the site has proven to be surprisingly productive and continued investigations have opened up some unexpected new...

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 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. Megan T. Hicks.

During July 14th-17th the CUNY Northern Science & Education Center (NORSEC) collaborated with the National Museum of Iceland and the Leverhulme Trust Project “Lanscapes Circum Landnam” in the investigation of possible midden deposits around the farm of in S Iceland. The investigations were supervised by Dr. Guðrun Sveinbjarnardóttir for the National Museum of Iceland and by Drs. Sophia Perdikaris and Thomas McGovern of the City University of New York (CUNY) and Drs. Andrew Dugmore and Mike...

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hörður Ágústsson. Guðmundur Ólafsson.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Hörður Ágústsson.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Hörður Ágústsson.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas McGovern. Sophia Perdikaris. Colin Amundsen.

During rescue excavations in downtown Reykjavík in 1999 nearly 100 kg of well-preserved animal bone was recovered in investigations at Tjarnargata 3 C by Fornleifastofnun Islands (FSÍ) directed by Mjöll Snaesdóttir. This bone collection (or archaeofauna) was largely sieved (4 mm and 1 mm mesh wet screen) and represents one of the largest archaeofauna recovered from Iceland to date. Analysis was carried out at City University of New York’s Northern Science & Education Center’s two zooarchaeology...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas McGovern. Ramona Harrison. Seth Brewington. Peter Kuchar.

Small archaeofauna from two highland sites located above 400 m above sea level, over 100 km inland in the upper reaches of the Skjálfandafljót river valley indicate the early presence of human settlement in this far inland area. While heavily deflated, the site of Undir Sandmúla produced an archaeofauna from stratified context directly above the Landnam sequence tephra, probably dating to the late 9th or early 10th century. This collection is from a highly burnt ”fireplace cleaning” deposit...