Skalholt (Site Name Keyword)
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2003 Skalholt Excavation Report
The Bishop's Beef: Improved Cattle in Eighteenth Century Skalholt, Iceland (2007)
Skalholt archaeofauna publication
Current Skalholt Database (2011)
Archaeofaunal database
Faunal Analysis of the Early Modern Bishop's Farm at Skalholt, Arnessysla Iceland (2011)
This dissertation presents the analysis of faunal material recovered from middens outside the main complex of the Bishop of Southern Iceland´s Cathedral farm at Skálholt, Arnessysla, Iceland. Issues of diet, deposition patterns, as well as participation in larger trade and intellectual networks addressed. All of these issues are examined in order to investigate larger issues centered around the early modern Atlantic world. The Skálholt material is also compared with the larger body of existing...
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...
Preliminary Report of an Analysis of Faunal Remains from an 18th century midden at Skálholt, Iceland (2005)
2005 Skalholt Zooarch Report
Preliminary Report of the Archaeofauna at Skálholt, Iceland (2007)
This report presents results of a preliminary analysis of the archaeofauna at the Episcopal farm of Skálholt, Arnessyslá, southern Iceland. This report presents the preliminary analysis of group 634. Group 634 was a 3X5 meter trench oriented lengthwise north to south opened up on June 28th of 2004 by Birna Lárusdóttir. Further excavation of this group was conducted by George Hambrecht during June of 2005, and a 1x3 meter extension was opened up off of the north end of the initial trench....
Preliminary Report of the Archaeofauna at Skálholt, Iceland (2006)
2006 Skalholt Zooarch Report
Skalholt 2002: Framvinduskýrslur/Interim Report No. 1 (2002)
2002 Skalholt Excavation Report
Zooarchaeology and the archaeology of early Modern Iceland (2009)
This paper presents the bulk of existing early modern Icelandic zooarchaeological data together for the first time. The early modern period in Iceland was generally a time of great stress and hardship. These zooarchaeological data present a view of the responses to these hard times and suggest, contrary to a number of historical interpretations, that the people of Iceland often adapted to harsher conditions in dynamic ways. Given the growing effort in archaeology for this period in Iceland as...