Zooarchaeology

Konrad Smiarowski (2022) Historical Ecology of Norse Greenland: Zooarchaeology and Climate Change Responses Hunter College of the City University of New York, Unpublished PhD Thesis. 270 pp.

Grace Cesario (2021) Marine Resource Specialization in Viking Age Iceland: Exploitation of Seabirds and Fish on Hegranes in Skagafjörður. Hunter College of the City University of New York, Unpublished PhD Thesis. 399 pp.

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 Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY Academic Works), Unpublished PhD Thesis. 261 pp.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 Hunter College of the City University of New York, Unpublished MA Thesis. 60 pp.

Ramona Harrison (2013) World systems and human ecodynamics in medieval Eyjafjorthur, north Iceland : Gasir and its hinterlands. City University of New York. Unpublished PhD thesis. 486 pp. Featured image: NABO | All Rights Reserved

Colin P. Amundsen (2008) Culture Contact, Ethnicity and Food Practices of Coastal Finnmark, Norway (1200 to 1600 A.D.). The City University of New York, Unpublished PhD Thesis. 473 pp.

This paper contributes to recent studies exploring the longue durée of human impacts on island landscapes, the impacts of climate and other environmental changes on human communities, and the interaction of human societies and their environments at different spatial and temporal scales. In particular, the paper addresses Iceland during the medieval period (with a secondary, ...

By Grace M. Cesario. In 2016, as part of the Skagafjörður Church and Settlement Survey (NSF PLR # 1242829, 1345066, 1417772 & 1523025), nine farms on Hegranes (Figure 1) were intensively surveyed, cored, and test pitted. In addition, the Fornbýli Landscape and Archaeological Survey on Hegranes (FLASH) surveyed, cored, and test pitted seven small sites, ...

The 15th century commercial fishing station at Gufuskálar is anomalous among fishing stations in Iceland – at least those have been excavated thus far. Rich in imported artifacts and well-provisioned with expensive foods the fishers at Gufuskálar were clearly not only impoverished tenant farmer/fishers as was often the case in better documented early modern times. ...

The Skagafjörður Archaeological Settlement Survey (SASS) project surveyed the Langholt region, in Skagafjörður, northern Iceland between 2001 and 2014 (Figure 1, Figure 2). Major excavations of Stóra-Seyla took place in 2008 and 2009 (Bolender 2008; Bolender et al. 2009). Stóra-Seyla is one of two settlement period farms located in the Langholt region of Skagafjörður (Bolender ...

Management of Zooarchaeological data became a growing problem during the career of Brian Hesse and his early engagement with attempts to digitize recording systems needs recognition. This paper presents an account of attempts to respond to problems identified by Brian in the 1970’s, extending through multiple levels of technology and responding to the increasing volume ...

The Siglunes site encompasses a Settlement Era (ca. AD 871) farm mound located on mainland and a series of eroding fishing structures found along the southern and western coasts of the peninsula protruding to the west from the mainland area. The site may have been occupied continuously through the post-medieval period and the last permanent ...

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 ...

This report presents preliminary zooarchaeological results from the Viking Age and medieval midden deposits at the Oddstaðir farm ruins. Beyond providing a long term chronology on site management and farm economy, this site has produced faunal remains dating from the 13th to the late 14th c., contemporaneous with those found at the Gásir trading site ...

In summer of 2008 and 2009, an excavation team led by the author and Howell M. Roberts (FSI) investigated the potential for midden remains at Myrkárdalur, a farm ruin site situated in a highland area in the most interior part of a minor valley system in Hörgárdalur, Eyjafjörður. The results of these exercises were two ...

This report presents results on zooarchaeological analysis from the Möðruvellir Midden Mound, or Öskuhóll, adjacent to the site’s extensive farm mound. Möðruvellir, likely a chieftain’s farm during the Settlement period, became House of Canons/Augustinian Monastery in the late 13th C, and remained an important ecclesiastical center even after the Reformation. Beyond functioning as religious institution, ...

This report provides an update on the ongoing analysis of the Viking Age to Late Norse archaeofauna recovered during the 2003 – 2006 excavations at the site of Undir Junkarinsfløtti (UJF), Sandoy, Faroe Islands. Nearly 60,000 bone and shell fragments have been analyzed to date, some three quarters of which have been identified to species ...

Three tusks from large mature walrus (Odobenus rosmarus L.) were recovered in 2001 from excavations by Archaeological Institute Iceland (FSÍ) within the early settlement age hall at Aðalstræti 14‐18 in downtown Reykjavík Iceland. These were made available for study at the FSÍ research center shortly after excavation and have since been included in the exhibit ...

The NABONE system consists of the coding manual, a developed Microsoft Access database with useful queries and reports, and an Excel spreadsheet set providing analytic output similar to the old Hunter College QBONE system. This package has been used in the analysis of over 65 archaeofauna.

Red Throated Diver Manual: A visual guide to the Identification of Avian Osteological Remains Manual No. B1 – Gavia stellata February 1999

The Hunter Bioarchaeology lab was charged with adapting the Rackham system to the realities of modern work in the North Atlantic, and to balance recorded detail with the need for rapid and consistent processing of the large bone collections now becoming common in our research area. This recording manual is the 9th working version ...

This is the Endnote reference library to accompany the British Isles Archaeological Bird Database.

This Access database and its accompanying Endnote reference library were compiled by Rob Carthy, funded by a grant from the Leverhulme Foundation, to facilitate the writing of The History of British Birds, published by Oxford University Press in Nov 2008. It is an attempt to compile as complete as possible a list of archaeological sites ...

NABONE Fish Originally available on a CD, FISHBONE 1.1 Identification Manual for Gadid Fish in the N Atlantic (Sophia Perdikaris, Yekaterina Krivogorskaya, Tom McGovern and Pirjo Lahtiperä, 2004) is a comprehensive collection of data, including numerous images of bones from Gadid fish found in archaeological sites throughout the North Atlantic region.

Búmodel: an environmental simulation model of historical land management in the North Atlantic Búmodel is an environmental simulation model that facilitates the integration of landscape ecology, environmental archaeology and historical analysis. The purpose of the model is to predict spatial and temporal patterns of vegetation biomass and production and utilisation (grazing, hay making) in a historical ...