New Interpretations of Medieval Norse Artifacts from the Tasikuluulik (Vatnahverfi) Area, South Greenland

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SANNA v2.2: Case Studies in the Social Archaeology of the North and North Atlantic" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The goal in this Master’s Thesis is to collect and systematize data from eight medieval Norse sites in the Tasikuluulik peninsula and use these data to compare with past interpretations regarding the use and purpose of these Norse sites. In past research projects, the eight sites under investigation have each been interpreted as representing different types of medieval Norse farms or shielings. Recently, different fields within the natural sciences have provided new knowledge on the use of the environment around, and consequently the function of, these sites. However, no one has been investigating the artifacts to try to establish building functions in these sites. Data for the thesis has been collected from catalogs, publications, and from the collections in National Museums of Greenland and Denmark. Each artifact now has some level of information depending on who found the object and of the time of the excavation. An important part of this investigation was to improve information on individual objects’ in order to improve 19th, 20th and 21st century recordings. The task was difficult and often the way from excavation to the Museum storage could have been a not so easy task.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SANNA v2.2: Case Studies in the Social Archaeology of the North and North Atlantic   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 25782