Hofstadir Monograph Project

Part of: Iceland Zooarchaeology Data

The original archaeofauna was worked up for a monograph publication edited by Gavin Lucas, and one folder contains the phasing information and correspondence around the monograph production as well as the spreadsheets producing the graphics, and some jpeg images from the monograph project and some power points created to describe the archaeofauna and site. The monograph chapter is included and represents the fullest statement about the large Viking Age archaeofauna. The chapter is also now posted on the NABO website as a pdf downloadable (www.nabohome.org).

2009 McGovern, Thomas H., Sophia Perdikaris, Ingrid Mainland, Philippa Ascough, Vicki Ewens, Arni Einarsson, Jane Sidell, George Hambrecht, and Ramona Harrison, Chapter 4 : The archaeofauna, in: Gavin Lucas (ed.) Hofstaðir: Excavations of a Viking Age Feasting Hall in North Eastern Iceland , Inst. of Archaeology Reykjavik Monograph 1, Reykjavik. Pp 168-252.

Site Name Keywords
Northeastern Iceland • Northern Iceland • Southeastern Norway • Southern Greenland • Hofstaðir • Hofstadir

Site Type Keywords
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex

Culture Keywords
Viking • Icelandic • Viking Age • Norse

Temporal Keywords
Medieval • Historical Period • Early Modern Period • Viking Age/Early Medieval

Geographic Keywords
Republic of Iceland (Country) • IS (ISO Country Code) • Iceland • Faroe Islands (Country) • Nordhurland Eystra (State / Territory) • FO (ISO Country Code) • Europe (Continent) • Iceland, Lake Myvatn • Norway • Greenland

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Documents
  • Bloody Slaughter (2007)
    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...

  • Cattle Skull Report for Monograph (2008)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas McGovern.

    HST Monograph reports and article

  • Copy of 1996 skull report (2007)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas McGovern.

    HST Monograph reports and article

  • Floor layers from Hofstadir (2007)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas McGovern.

    HST Floor and Midden deposits

  • Hofstadir plan (2007)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Ramona Harrison

    HST Floor and Midden deposits

  • HST Cattle Skull report (2007)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas McGovern.

    HST Monograph reports and article

  • HST Cattle SKulls Report (2007)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas McGovern.

    HST Monograph reports and article

  • stink plan (2007)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas McGovern.

    HST Floor and Midden deposits

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