Mývatnssveit

Megan Hicks (2019) Commmunity, Ecology, and Modernity: Faunal Analysis of Skútustaðir in Mývatnssveit, Northern Iceland. Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY Academic Works), Unpublished PhD Thesis. 261 pp.

Wendi K. Coleman (2019) Hrísheimar: Fish Consumption Patterns. Hunter College of the City University of New York, Unpublished MA Thesis. 60 pp.

BOLD, RACHAEL (2012) Norse Utilisation of Archaeobotanical Resources within the Myvatnssveit locale, Northern Iceland. Masters thesis, Durham University. Copyright of this thesis is held by the author.

Jennifer Brown (2010) Human responses, resilience and vulnerability: An interdisciplinary approach to understanding past farm success and failure in Mývatnssveit, northern Iceland. University of Stirling, Unpublished PhD Thesis. 473 pp.

Andrew Henry (2009) Using Google Earth for Internet GIS. University of Edinburgh, Unpublished MSc in Geographical Information Science Thesis

This report outlines the research that was conducted over the course of one week in late June, 2008. A total of five réttir – sheep folds – were surveyed using a Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS). Each réttir displayed a variety of forms, and different uses of local materials, and these results will be used ...

In 2011 a midden deposit was excavated just outside the churchyard wall at the medieval Christian cemetery at Hofstaðir in the Mývatn Lake Basin area of northern Iceland. This deposit rests on a volcanic tephra H 1300 and has produced two AMS C14 dates from terrestrial diet cattle bone that suggest the archaeofauna was formed ...

The discovery of an intact midden at Skútustaðir’s historic farmstead in 2007 was a key finding for the planned investigation of the medieval and early modern periods in the lake Mývatn area of northern Iceland. The 2009 field season followed a soil coring survey and surface collection in 2007 and the excavation of four test ...

Reconstructing historic landscapes responses to a range of factors contributed by natural processes and anthropogenic activities is an important part of understanding why natural systems fluctuate between stable and unstable conditions. In doing so new understanding of landscape resilience in a dynamic environment can emerge and ultimately lead to new ideas for sustainable management. To understand ...

In June-July 2009 an international team (led by Ágústa Edwald FSÍ and Tom McGovern CUNY) conducted initial investigations of stratified midden deposits associated with the historic site of Skútustaðir in Mývatn in NE Iceland. In 2007 a joint FSÍ/CUNY NABO team visited Skútustaðir following the discovery of a patch of eroding midden by Arni Einarsson ...

Extensive midden deposits dating from the Settlement Period (871-930 AD) to the Early Modern Period (17- 19th century) were partly investigated at the site of Skútustaðir, Mývatnsveit, N-Iceland during the summer of 2008 by a team of archaeologists from City University of New York (CUNY) and the Institute of Archaeology of Iceland (FSÍ). In order ...

This fieldwork was co-funded by National Science Foundation grant ‘Human Ecodynamics in Norse North Atlantic’, the Earth and Biosphere Institute (EBI), University of Leeds and Durham University. It forms part of our efforts to understand the landscape history in general, and past vegetation dynamics and modification by humans in particular, in Mývatnssveit, northern Iceland. This ...

In 2007, midden deposits associated with the 9th-19th c. archaeological site of Skutustadir in the Lake Myvatn District of N. Iceland were located. The remains were first noted by Arni Einarsson of the Myvatn Science Station and later, more extensively surveyed by CUNY archaeologists. In 2008, an international team lead by CUNY and FSI excavated ...

In June-July 2008 an international team (led by Ágústa Edwald FSÍ and Tom McGovern CUNY) conducted initial investigations of stratified midden deposits associated with the historic site of Skútustaðir in Mývatn in NE Iceland. The project is part of a larger NABO (North Atlantic Biocultural Organization) and IPY (International Polar Year) program Human Ecodynamics in ...

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 ...

In 2006 a campaign of major archaeological excavations in Mývatnssveit – the area around Lake Mývatn in NE-Iceland – wound to a close with the completion of fieldwork at Hrísheimar and Sveigakot. Together with the excavation of Hofstaðir, which was completed in 2002, these formed the backbone of extensive archaeological fieldwork focused on the Mývatn ...

This report represents a narrative account of the 2007 FSI/CUNY Archaeological survey project in Mývatnssveit June 10-22nd 2007 (directed by Orri Vésteinsson, Adolf Friðriksson, and Tom McGovern, with the able assistance of George Hambrecht, Ramona Harrison, Konrad Smiarowski and Albina Palsdottir, and with invaluable aid from Árni Einarsson of the Mývatn Science Station). The digital ...