Marine Fish Zooarchaeological Data from Iceland and the Central North Atlantic Marine Historical Ecology Project

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This is an abstract from the "Arctic Pasts: Dimensions of Change" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This paper will discuss a new NSF-funded project, the Central North Atlantic Marine Historical Ecology Project (CAMHEP), as well as provide an overview of the current overall state of marine fish zooarchaeological data from Iceland. CAMHEP will utilize marine zooarchaeological data from Icelandic archaeological sites dating from the first settlement of Iceland in the second half of the ninth century CE through the nineteenth century. It will attempt to build a record of the complex relationships between changing marine and climate conditions, human fishing, and cod populations over the last millennium. CAMHEP will combine archaeological, historical, and biochemical analytical methods to build a new and deeper record of the relationship between cod and humans in Iceland that will serve as an important tool in managing this relationship in the present and future. This presentation is a product of the North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO) and it is part of an ongoing collaboration with the Paleoecology of Subarctic Seas (PESAS) research group.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• Arctic Pasts: Dimensions of Change

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Abstract Id(s): 33049