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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...
An Interim Report of the Viking Age Archaeofauna From Hrísheimar, Mývatn District, N Iceland. (2006)
Preliminary faunal report.
leverhulmemasterJuly13 W HST COWS AND HRH (2007)
HST spreadsheets
Mammal Consumption at the Medieval Fishing Station at Gufuskálar A Preliminary Zooarchaeology Report from the 2011 Excavation (2012)
This report details the analysis of mammal bones recovered from one of the four trenches excavated at the medieval fishing station of Gufuskálar during the summer of 2011. During excavation it was noted that there seemed to be a high proportion of mammal bones recovered which correspond with high quality cuts of meat. This was counter to our assumptions regarding the economic status of fishermen during the medieval era as these cuts of meat would be rather expensive. The preliminary...
McGSPEAJS Myvatn tables and figs may 05 (2009)
HST spreadsheets
Metric data final 3 07 (2007)
HST spreadsheets
metric tables (2007)
HST spreadsheets
The Midden at Möðruvellir, 2007, Preliminary Excavation Report (field report) (2007)
Between July 31 st and August 10th 2007, staff from Fornleifastofnun Íslands continued excavation of an evaluation trench begun in the summer of 2006. This aimed at investigating the nature and preservation of faunal remains at the so-called Ash Hill (Öskuhóll) at Möðruvellir, in Hörgárbyggð, Eyjafjörður. As in 2006, the key aim of this effort was to locate and recover animal bones, artefacts, and environmental samples from a well stratified midden sequence at Möðruvellir, in...
Midden Investigations at Brenna, Mývatnssveit, N Iceland, 2002 (field report) (2002)
During the 2002 field season of the (directed by Fornleifastofnun Islands with collaboration by the NABO cooperative) we visited the abandoned site of Brenna on the shores of Sandvatn (to the NW of Mývatn). A small farm site now much overgrown with dwarf birch and willow had clear boundary walls, several room depressions in a small farm mound, and a clear mounded midden deposit to the NE of the main structure. A small test pit had been dug some time in the past at the base of the...
Midden Investigations at Hofstaðir, Mývatnssveit, N Iceland, 2002 (field report) (2002)
During the 2002 field season of the Landscapes of Settlement Project (directed by Fornleifastofnun ĺslands with collaboration by the NABO cooperative) the CUNY team was tasked to locate midden deposits surviving around the medieval to early modern farm mound on the southern side of the home field and assess their prospects for further excavation. Two areas were investigated with small test pits: 1) the area of a midden mound drawn by Bruun in 1908 and subsequently leveled by...
Midden Investigations at Holt, S Iceland, July 2003 (2003)
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...
Midden Investigations at Hrísheimar, N Iceland 2003 (field report) (2003)
During the 2001 season, the Landscapes of Settleement project began excavations at Hrísheimar near the modern farm of Baldursheimar in Mývatnssveit N Iceland. This long-abandoned site has been heavily eroded for some time, and visitors have found Viking age artifacts and bone fragments eroding out on the surface for many years. The 2001 season excavated a 2 x 2 m unit (H) placed over an eroding concentration of ani l bones just to the S E of the visible farm mound, on the edge of the only...
Midden Investigations at Höftagerði N Iceland, 2002 (2002)
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...
Midden Investigations at Oddastaðir, Mývatnssveit, N Iceland, 2002 (2002)
During the 2002 field season of the Landscapes of Settlement Project (directed by Fornleifastofnun ĺslands with collaboration by the NABO cooperative) a team (Tom McGovern and Christian Keller) visited Oddastaðir August 9 th 2002 with the objective of localizing possible midden deposits around the several groups of ruins contained within the surviving home field wall. McGovern made a series of soil cores using the Oakfield tube type soil corer and dug a 1 x 1 m test pit,...
Midden Investigations at Saltvík N Iceland, August 2003 (field report) (2003)
This report presents the results of a first stage investigation of possible midden deposits at the site of Saltvík near Husavik in N Iceland carried out August 12 th 2003. An Oakfield tube-type soil corer was used to probe possible midden deposits around five structures associated with what appears to be three concentration of structures (NW, W, and NE) on the hillside and stream gullies to the S of the modern farm and horse stable area of Saltvík. These structural complexes are on...
Midden Investigations at Steinbogi (SBO), Mývatnssveit, N Iceland, 2002 (2002)
During the 2002 field season of the Landscapes of Settlement Project (directed by Fornleifastofnun Islands with collaboration by the NABO cooperative) the CUNY team was tasked to locate and excavate midden deposits associated with the small abandoned farm Steinbogi in ývatn district (28 W 0399697, UTM 7276512, ca 280 m asl). The site is endangered by highway construction and is target of a multidisciplinary rescue effort as part of the overall regional research and education effort....
Myrkardalur_database (2009)
Myrkardalur access database of 2008 and 2009 faunal remains
Myrkárdalur in Hörgárdalur, N. Iceland: Brief Summary of the 2008/2009 Archaeofauna (2011)
The results of zooarchaeological analysis are presented here, with a very limited discussion on potential site economy. While the ruins visible in the landscape are likely from the medieval period and are reminiscent of medieval corridor houses from Greenland, faunal remains are from a later point in time and indicative of a long term use of this area, at least in terms of structural remains from the early 20th c. still standing. Today, this area is frequented by fox hunters and the land used by...
NABO Artifacts
Project for artifact data from Norse sites across the North Atlantic islands, including Iceland, Greenland, and Shetland.
News from the Register of Professional Archaeologists-EAA Conference Review (1999)
The Fifth Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) was held in Bournemouth, England, September 15th to 19th, 1999. Berle Clay and I attended as representatives of the Register of Professional Archaeologists. Presently, European archaeology is very similar to our own experiences in the middle 1970s and early 1980s, but yet it is unique and diverse in so many ways. Areas of concern to European archaeologists sound all too familiar: how to define significance, the need for...
NISP Table (2006)
Number of Identifiable Species (NISP) Table
North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO)
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...
Oddstair_faunal_database (2012)
Access database of faunal remains analyzed from the 2009 excavation.
Oddstaðir in Hörgárdalur, N. Iceland: Report of the 2009 Archaeofauna. (2012)
This report presents preliminary zooarchaeological results from the Viking Age and medieval midden deposits at the Oddstaðir farm ruins. Beyond providing a long term chronology on site management and farm economy, this site has produced faunal remains dating from the 13th to the late 14th c., contemporaneous with those found at the Gásir trading site and also those from the medieval monastic estate at Möðruvellir. Results from the Oddstaðir faunal analysis are highly valuable and suggest that...
Paleoenvironment Chapter, Hofstadir Monograph (2006)
Chapter on the paleoenvironment for the Hofstadir Monograph. Until recently very little was known about the history of environmental change in Myvatnssveit, although many other parts of Iceland have been investigated in some detail, beginning with the work of Sigurður Þórarinsson in the 1940s and Þorleifur Einarsson in the 1950s. Notable multi-disciplinary research at the landscape scale, associated with archaeological excavation, has taken place and is still continuing in Reykholtsdalur in...