Project Details: Svalbarð revisited

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Preliminary Report of Archaeological Fieldwork at Svalbard (Svalbardshreppur), 2008 In 1986 and 1988 midden excavations took place in Svalbarð, N-Þingeyjarsýsla, revealing one of the largest faunal collections up to that point in Iceland. The results were instrumental in the development of methods and models for reconstructing palaeoeconomies in the N-Atlantic region. In 2008 the Svalbarð midden was revisited with the aim of refining the stratigraphy and dating, to gather new radiocarbon, geoarchaeological and ecofact samples to supplement landscape history and site fomation reconstructions for the site and for the Svalbard region, and to identify potential locations...

Archaeological Fieldwork at Svalbarð, NE Iceland 2013 2013 was the most extensive year in archaeological research in Svalbarðstunga. The field season started on the 15th of July and lasted until 3rd of August. The archaeological field crew consisted of Dr. James Woollett (Laval University), Uggi Ævarsson (archaeologist and Cultural Heritage Manager of Southern Iceland), Céline Dupont- Hébert (Laval University), Guðrún Alda Gísladóttir og Stefán Ólafsson (Institute of Archaeology, Iceland), Dr. Véronique Forbes (University of Aberdeen), Natasha Roy (Laval University), Astrid Daxböck (Institute of Archaeology, Iceland), Jónas H....