Interim Report of Animal Bones from the 2003 Excavations at Gásir, Eyjafjörður, N Iceland

Archaeological excavations carried out in the summer of 2002 at the site of Gásir in Eyjafjörður near the modern city of Akureyri directed by Howell Roberts of Fornleifastofnun Íslands (Archaeological Institute Iceland, FSl) for Minjasafnið á Akureyri (Akureyri Museum) produced a substantial number of animal bones, whose initial analysis is reported here. Analysis has been carried out by Dr.s Jim Woollett and Tom McGovern, and Ph.D. students Ramona Harrison and Seth Brewington at the CUNY Northern Science & Education Center laboratories as part of the North Atlantic Biocultural Organization cooperative effort, with funding from the UK Leverhulme Trust. The 2003 excavations were part of a larger scale long term effort to investigate the remains of the early trading center at Gásir and to place the site in a regional and historical perspective. Investigations will continue at the site, and this report is thus only a working paper to be updated and replaced as more material becomes available for study. The total animal bone collection (archaeofauna) analyzed from the 2003 season comprised 5,067 fragments, of which 2,240 could be assigned to a taxon. Together with the faunal remains analyzed in the previous year, the total NISP 2002/2003 represents 3,088 out of a TNF of 7,168.

Eyjafjörður Gásir Iceland zooarchaeology

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