North Atlantic Archaeology, Culture, History and Human Ecodynamics

The North Atlantic data sets listed here resulted from a variety of archaeological, historical, cultural and environmental projects carried out over recent decades. A particular aim was to promote long term data comparability and to provide both a long term data archive and a set of analytic tools immediately addressing current joint research objectives.

Site Name Keywords
Skútustaðir • HST • HRH • SVK • Northern Iceland • Northeastern Iceland • Southeastern Norway • Southern Greenland • Hofstaðir • Skalholt

Site Type Keywords
Archaeological Feature • Midden • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Water-Related • Specialized Fishing Site • Subsistence, Trade, and Exchange

Other Keywords
settlement • Archaeology • Iceland • historical ecology • sustainability • Human Ecodynamics • Artifacts • Iceland, Archaeology, Zooarchaeology, Norse, Viking Age, Landnam • Norse • Palaeoenvironmental study

Culture Keywords
Norse • Viking • Icelandic • Viking Age • Medieval • Historic • Icelandic Settlement • post medieval • North Atlantic Archaeology

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation • Collections Research • Environment Research

Material Types
Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Fire Cracked Rock • Glass • Ground Stone • Metal • Wood • Textile • Fauna • Basketry

Temporal Keywords
Viking Age/Early Medieval • Medieval • Historical Period • Early Modern Period • 10th Century • Viking Age • Post Medieval • medieval (14th century)

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

Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 2,101-2,111 of 2,111)

  • Viking Hofstaðir traffic (2007)
    IMAGE Thomas McGovern.

    HST Monograph graphics

  • Viking Hofstaðir waste accum (2007)
    IMAGE Thomas McGovern.

    HST Monograph graphics

  • A VIKING-AGE ARCHAEOFAUNA FROM GRANASTADIR NORTHERN ICELAND (1994)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas Amorosi. Thomas McGovern.

    1994 Faunal report from the Viking Age collection at Granastadir, Eyjafjordur, Iceland.

  • wild mammals hst may 07 (2007)
    DATASET Thomas McGovern.

    HST spreadsheets

  • Zooarchaeology and the archaeology of early Modern Iceland (2009)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas McGovern.

    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...

  • Zooarchaeology at Hofstadir (2008)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas McGovern.

    Power Point Presentation

  • Zooarchaeology of Aðalstræti 14-16, 2001 Assessment Report of the Post-Medieval Contexts (2002)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Clayton Tinsley. Thomas McGovern.

    Small samples of post-Medieval animal bone were collected during the excavations of the Aðalstræti 14-16 site in 2001. This second stage assessment presents an overview of these Zooarchaeological materials and may indicate the value of further analysis of some of these contexts in future. The major contexts could be divided stratigraphically into four major phases (modern, 19th c., post- 1764 , and pre -1764 fire horizon). Only the two 18th century phases produced partially quantifiable sample...

  • Zooarchaeology of Aðalstræti 14-16, 2001 Report of the Viking Period Animal (2001)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Clayton Tinsley. Thomas McGovern.

    The 2001 excavations of a Viking-Age hall at Aðalstræti 14-16 in downtown Reykjavík produced a small and highly fragmented collection of burned animal bone. The bone collection derived from the hall floor layers and was recovered through flotation and retention of 1 mm mesh sink fraction. Approximately 3 % of the collection could be identified, allowing for only the most basic quantification. Nevertheless, all the major Settlement Period domestic mammals are represented (Cattle, Caprine, Pig,...

  • Zooarchaeology of Landnám: 9th-11th c Midden Deposits at Sveigakot, N Iceland (2004)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas McGovern. Sophia Perdikaris. Colin Amundsen.

    Excavations by Archaeological Inst. Iceland at the small inland farm site of Sveigakot in Mývatn district of N Iceland since 1999 have produced a substantial archaeofauna dating from the first settlement in the late 9th c down to final abandonment in the late 12th c with a period of abandonment and reoccupation in the early 11th c. Three midden deposits datable by tephra, radiocarbon and artifacts span the major occupation phases and provide the basis for this report of the ongoing...

  • ZooarchHSTdraft6final (2013)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas McGovern.

    Early stages of the investigations at Hofstaðir directed by the Archaeological Institute Iceland revealed that substantial amounts of well-preserved animal bone were present in contexts throughout the site, with a major concentration in the fill of the large sunken featured structure G. The site directors kindly involved the NABO zooarchaeologists (led through various seasons by Tom McGovern and Sophia Perdikaris), and the zooarchaeology team was able to participate directly in the field...

  • Zoom skull a (2002)
    IMAGE Thomas McGovern.

    HST cattle skull pictures