Kotið: An Integrated Geoarchaeological Investigation
Author(s): Jeffrey Speller; Karen Milek; Kathryn Catlin; Douglas Bolender
Year: 2024
Summary
This is an abstract from the "Small Dwellings on the Viking Frontier: New Research from Kotið, North Iceland" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
The site of Kotið, in Skagafjörður, northern Iceland, consists of several interposed components ranging from medieval outbuildings to a small dwelling from the first period of settlement in the region (ca. 870–930 CE). To understand how the inhabitants of Kotið constructed and reconstructed the buildings there and impacted site deposits (both inside as well as outside of formal structures), an integrated geoarchaeological project has been initiated employing diverse methodologies ranging from soil coring to soil micromorphology to geochemical analysis. This poster presents the preliminary results of the geoarchaeological investigations at Kotið.
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Kotið: An Integrated Geoarchaeological Investigation. Jeffrey Speller, Karen Milek, Kathryn Catlin, Douglas Bolender. Presented at The 89th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2024 ( tDAR id: 499142)
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Keywords
General
Environmental Archaeology
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Geoarchaeology
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Household Archaeology
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Iceland
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Iron Age
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Norse
Geographic Keywords
North Atlantic
Spatial Coverage
min long: -97.031; min lat: 0 ; max long: 10.723; max lat: 64.924 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 38971.0