Nordhurland Eystra (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas McGovern.

Hofstadir Midden excavation reports

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

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Kiliii Yu.

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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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas McGovern.

Hofstadir Midden excavation reports

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas McGovern.

Hofstadir Midden excavation reports

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas McGovern.

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...

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HST Monograph reports and article

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 Full-Text Thomas McGovern.

HST Monograph reports and article

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 Thomas McGovern.

HST Floor and Midden deposits

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas McGovern.

Hofstadir Midden excavation reports

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ramona Harrison.

This faunal report presents new information on the Gásir archaeofauna which was collected during 5 years (2002 – 2006) out of the total 6 years of Archaeological excavations at the site of Gásir near the modern city of Akureyri. Under the direction of Howell Roberts of Fornleifastofnun Íslands (Archaeological Institute Iceland, FSĺ) and on behalf of Minjasafnið á Akureyri (Akureyri Museum), initial investigative activities at Gásir were begun in 2001. The project resulted in a large...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas McGovern.

Hofstadir Midden excavation reports

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 Thomas McGovern.

Hofstadir Midden excavation reports

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas McGovern. Sophia Perdikaris. Ingrid Mainland. Philippa Ascough. Vicki Ewens. Arni Einarsson. Jane Sidell. george hambrecht. Ramona Harrison.

Early stages of the investigations at Hofstaðir directed by the Archaeological Institute Iceland revealed that substantial amounts of well-preserved animal bone were present in contexts throughout the site, with a major concentration in the fill of the large sunken featured structure G. The site directors kindly involved the NABO zooarchaeologists (led through various seasons by Tom McGovern and Sophia Perdikaris), and the zooarchaeology team was able to participate directly in the field...

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In 2006 excavations in Units E and L cleared midden from three structures dating to the early Viking Age, and completed excavations in the southern half of the 2005 exposure (ca 50 sq m), taking this area down to the Landnám tephra sequence (LNS). These structures are; C a sunken featured structure (pit house), D a latrine, and S a shallow depression bounded by post holes possibly representing a very early hut or tent structure. The establishment of a secure chronology connecting...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas McGovern.

HST Monograph reports and article

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas McGovern.

HST Monograph reports and article

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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