Svalbardshreppur (Geographic Keyword)

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 Full-Text Jim Woollett.

This document is a preliminary report of archaeological fieldwork conducted at and around the farm of Svalbard, Svalbardshreppur, in June 2008. An initial evaluation of the archaeological potential of Svalbard was made by archaeologists of the Iceland Palaeoeconomy Project (IPP) in 1986, revealing the presence of deep midden deposits adjacent to the extant farm mound, on the bank of the bank of the Svalbarsa River. Test excavations and then large scale excavations of this midden...