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2003 Skalholt Field Report (2003)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas McGovern.

2003 Skalholt Excavation Report

Aasivissuit - The Great Summer Camp. Archaeological, ethnographical and zooarchaeological studies of a caribou hunting site in West Greenland (1983)

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

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...

Ahnkuttie – Animating a hide-on-frame Greenland-style Qayaq (2008)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kiliii Yu.

The Bishop's Beef: Improved Cattle in Eighteenth Century Skalholt, Iceland (2007)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas McGovern.

Skalholt archaeofauna publication

Conduits of Dispersal. Dematerializing an early twentieth century village in Iceland. (2013)

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...

Current Skalholt Database (2011)

DATASET Thomas McGovern.

Archaeofaunal database

Deyr fé, deyr frændr. Re-animating mortuary remains from Viking Age Iceland (2007)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Þ Pétursdóttir.

The Ecclesiastical Economy. The Power of the Church in Post-Reformation Iceland (2023)

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...

Faunal Analysis of the Early Modern Bishop's Farm at Skalholt, Arnessysla Iceland (2011)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas McGovern.

This dissertation presents the analysis of faunal material recovered from middens outside the main complex of the Bishop of Southern Iceland´s Cathedral farm at Skálholt, Arnessysla, Iceland. Issues of diet, deposition patterns, as well as participation in larger trade and intellectual networks addressed. All of these issues are examined in order to investigate larger issues centered around the early modern Atlantic world. The Skálholt material is also compared with the larger body of existing...

Greenland 2007 Field Season - Preliminary Report (field report) (2007)

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...

Hearth and home of the Paleo-Eskimos (2003)

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...

Iceland (2018)

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.

Iceland and the Colonial Project (2013)

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...

Ildstedet som livscentrum. Aspekter af arktiske ildsteders funktion og ideologi (2001)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ulla Odgaard.

Kitchen Things: Material Entanglement and Modernity in 19th- Century Iceland (2019)

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...

The most extreme Situation. Contextual experiment with an Arctic hearth performed at Lejre Experimental Center, Denmark, during work on Ph.D. dissertation "the fireplace as centre of life. Aspects of function and ideology of Arctic Hearths" (2005)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ulla Odgaard.

Moveable Wealth. Poverty and Plenty in Postmedieval Iceland (2023)

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...

North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO)

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...

Pottery Consumption in the 17th & 18th Centuries in Iceland (2023)

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...

Preliminary Report of an Analysis of Faunal Remains from an 18th century midden at Skálholt, Iceland (2005)

DOCUMENT Full-Text George Hambrecht.

2005 Skalholt Zooarch Report

Preliminary Report of the Archaeofauna at Skálholt, Iceland (2007)

DOCUMENT Full-Text George Hambrecht.

This report presents results of a preliminary analysis of the archaeofauna at the Episcopal farm of Skálholt, Arnessyslá, southern Iceland. This report presents the preliminary analysis of group 634. Group 634 was a 3X5 meter trench oriented lengthwise north to south opened up on June 28th of 2004 by Birna Lárusdóttir. Further excavation of this group was conducted by George Hambrecht during June of 2005, and a 1x3 meter extension was opened up off of the north end of the initial trench....

Preliminary Report of the Archaeofauna at Skálholt, Iceland (2006)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas McGovern.

2006 Skalholt Zooarch Report

The reconstructed medieval farm in Þjórsárdalur and the development of the Icelandic Turf house (2003)