Savor Your Subsistence: Foodways at Kotið, a Small Viking Age Dwelling in Northern Iceland

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.

We present food production data from the 2022–2023 excavations at Kotið, a small, non-elite Viking Age (ninth century AD) domestic dwelling located in Skagafjörður, North Iceland. Macrobotanical and zooarchaeological remains provide key data to better understand early subsistence strategies, including hunting, fishing, animal husbandry, wild plant gathering, and cereal cultivation. Little is known about the role small domestic sites such as Kotið played in the political economy and ecology of the early Icelandic settlement period, but the evidence for cereal cultivation, livestock consumption and fishing begin to tell a dynamic story of early Icelandic foodways.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Small Dwellings on the Viking Frontier: New Research from Kotið, North Iceland   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39965.0