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	Preliminary Field Report of the 2013 Skuggi and Staðartunga Excavations in Hörgárdalur, Eyjafjörður Investigations into the Gásir Hinterlands and Eyjafjörður Human Ecodynamics: Preliminary Field Report of the 2013 Skuggi and Staðartunga Excavations in Hörgárdalur, Eyjafjörður This is a preliminary report on the 2013 field season at Skuggi. The 2013 Skuggi midden and structural excavations are a continuation of work started there in 2008 and 2009. In a continued effort to investigate the long term Eyjafjörður Human Ecodynamics, an international team cooperated in carrying out a program of survey, coring, and small scale test excavation on selected sites in the Eyjafjörður...
	Skuggi early medieval / Viking Age Structure In 2013, we continued our midden excavation at Skuggi in Hörgárdalur. We emptied the underlying structure of all midden materials and collapse to find the outline and extent of the structure. We also dug a trench at the side of yet another structure on that site, presumably more recent in time. This trench revealed that between the 1300 H and 1104 H tephra layers, a landslide seems to have covered at least part of the site. Underneath yet another layer of what seems landslides was found. That layer was then covering midden materials. We are looking forward to finding out the story and...
	Skuggi in Hörgárdalur, N. Iceland: Preliminary report of the 2008/2009 archaeofauna. (Norsec Lab Report 50) This NORSEC report provides information on the analyzed Skuggi archaeofauna from the 2008 and 2009 seasons of the GHP.
	Skuggi - Field season 2013 - 1 Information on the early stages of the Skuggi field season in 2013.
	US Ambassador Arreaga visits Skuggi and Thelamerkurskoli In June, the US ambassador to Iceland visited us at Skuggi and at Thelamerkurskoli with his family.
	HERC North Atlantic - Eyjafjörður Human Ecodynamics Project Background information posted on the HERC North Atlantic blog. For more information, please follow the Skuggi and Siglunes links.