Northern Iceland (Geographic Keyword)
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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 presents a interdisciplinary perspective on the long-distance market relations between and within the regional Hinterlands of an Icelandic trading station, and the socio-economic organization and structures in place. While the main part of the presentation will focus on the 12th to 14th century evidence from both...
The Midden at Möðruvellir, 2006, Preliminary Excavation Report (field report) (2006)
Between July 31 st and August 9th 2006, Fornleifastofnun Íslands carried out an exploratory trenching exercise in the area of the so-called Ash Hill (Öskuhóll) at Möðruvellir, in Högárbyggð, Eyjafjörður. 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 connection with ongoing archaeological work investigating local subsistence strategies in late medieval Eyjafjord. This work...
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...
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...