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Grace M. Cesario
Introduction and Excavations
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, four of which are included in this research. This report on the archaeofauna from these test pit excavations supplements Bolender et al. (2017) and Catlin et al. (2017) by providing economic context to their survey and excavation results. The only farm excavated in 2016 that will not be reported here is Kotið, because we expanded that excavation unit in 2017 and it will be reported on its own.
The sites explored in Hegranes fall into two major categories—abandoned sites, or fornbýli, and those that are currently occupied and farmed. The abandoned sites are small and located physically on the margins of the large farms. These sites are also environmentally marginal, as they tend to be located in eroded areas. SCASS research focuses on the large farms, while FLASH studies the abandoned sites. The vast majority of the fornbýli are abandoned by AD 1104.
Test pits were 1x1 meter units, placed in areas of the farm mound with the best tephra preservation and evidence of human activities. The archaeofaunal samples collected from these excavations are too small to present more than a species list, though a few observations based on broader patterns will be discussed once all the data has been presented.
CUNY Northern Science and Education Center, NORSEC
The Fiske Center at the University of Massachusetts, Boston
CUNY Doctoral Program in Anthropology
Brooklyn College Zooarchaeological Laboratory
Hunter College Zooarchaeology Laboratory
CUNY NORSEC Laboratory Report No. 66
BSK-2018-202 / SCASS-18
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