Nordhurland Eystra (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)
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Hofstadir Midden excavation reports
Aasivissuit - The Great Summer Camp. Archaeological, ethnographical and zooarchaeological studies of a caribou hunting site in West Greenland (1983)
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)
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...
all tooth wear HST (2009)
HST spreadsheets
Archaeological investigations in Mývatnssveit 2007 (Field Report) (2008)
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 Lake Mývatn area which had begun in 1991, and which became subsequently known as the Landscapes of Settlements project. In addition to the three large...
Astrid AEGIR summary (2013)
Hofstadir Midden excavation reports
Aug 09 HST Final Pub (2007)
HST spreadsheets
Birds and fish HST May 07 (2011)
HST spreadsheets
BJORN Gudmundsson trans (2013)
Hofstadir Midden excavation reports
Bloody Slaughter (2007)
This article attempts an interpretation of an unusual assemblage of cattle skulls recovered from recent excavations at the Viking Age monumental hall of Hofstaðir in Iceland. Osteological analysis of the skulls indicates ritual decapitation and display of cattle heads, and this article seeks to explore the meanings of this practice in relation to the context of the site and the wider historical and ethnographic literature. It is argued that the beheading of cattle and display of their heads was...
Bovid spreadsheet (1999)
Bovid spreadsheet
Caprine element dist G I (2007)
HST spreadsheets
Caprine element dist G II (2007)
HST spreadsheets
Caprine eruption and wear May 07 HST (2009)
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caprine stature and wt reconst (2007)
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caprine tooth erupt and wear check may 07 (2007)
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Cats mice and dogs HST may 07 (2007)
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Cattle Skull Report for Monograph (2008)
HST Monograph reports and article
Conduits of Dispersal. Dematerializing an early twentieth century village in Iceland. (2013)
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...
Copy of 1996 skull report (2007)
HST Monograph reports and article
Copy of Midden_gr 5114_finds (2013)
Hofstadir Midden excavation reports
Copy of Posthole finds (2007)
HST spreadsheets
Dettifoss 09 Database (2010)
Access database of archaeofauna from the 2009 Dettifoss excavation.
Deyr fé, deyr frændr. Re-animating mortuary remains from Viking Age Iceland (2007)
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...
The Ecclesiastical Economy. The Power of the Church in Post-Reformation Iceland (2023)
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...