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Project Details: Strandasysla Historical Ecology Project 1988-90

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Title: Strandasysla Historical Ecology Project 1988-90
Description This project was a joint collaboration between City University of NY (Tom McGovern) and the National Museum of Iceland (Gudmundur Olafsson) with active collaboration by the Icelandic Natural History Institute (Haukur Johanneson)and the kind support of the people of Arneshreppur in Strandasysla, West Fjords, NW Iceland. The project was an early attempt to connect multiple site investigations (aimed at midden sampling rather than structures)into a landscape-focused investigation of changing human use of terrestrial and marine resources. The project involved site survey and location, and the excavation of midden deposits at the sites of Finnbogastadir (early modern deposits sampled), Gjogur (deeply stratified midden extending to early middle ages) and Akurvik (middens and small fishing booth structures dating from mid 13th- late 15th centuries. The region is very rich archaeologically, with generally excellent conditions of organic preservation and very little of the systematic field-flattening that has erased archaeological deposits in other parts of Iceland. Publication of the large Akurvik archaeofauna and the smaller 18th-early 19th c Finnbogastadir archaeofauna is completed and an initial report on the Gjogur materials are available. More work is planned in this region beginning in 2009 (led by Ragnar Edvardsson) and a PhD project (Frank Feeley, CUNY) is planned using the new and 1988-90 archaeofauna. For more information on the old 1988-90 work contact Tom McGovern (nabo@voicenet.com), for information on the new projects contact Ragnar Edvardsson (re@hi.is)
Keywords:West Fjords Iceland
Historical Ecology
Zooarchaeology
Fishing
Iceland
Sponsors/Funders US National Science Foundation (Archaeology), Icelandic National Museum
Country Iceland
Project Start Year 1988
Project End Year 1990

Project Contact

Contact: Thomas H McGovern
Address Dept Anthropology Hunter College CUNY 695 Park Ave New York NY 10021
Postcode 10021
Telephone 001 2152970373
Email thomas.h.mcgovern@gmail.com

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