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Project Details: Gjogur Excavations 1990


Project Description

Parent ProjectCUNY Strandasysla Historical Ecology Project 1988-90
Title: Gjogur Excavations 1990
Description The site of Gjogur is a substantial farm mound now associated with a small boat landing. Gjogur is historically known to be an early settlement, and the deeply stratified midden deposits sampled in 1990 indicate a long period of occupation. The 1990 season saw a cutting back of a profile exposed by a 1920's silage (surhey) pit, which had exposed over 2 m of stratified midden deposit. Note that the 2009 excavation did not reach the lowest layers due to water flooding and the lowest layers have not been sampled. This site would certainly repay more investigation, and additional lab work continues on the remainder of the 1990 archaeofauna. Gjogur appears as a farm heavily engaged in fishing and fish processing.
Keywords:Iceland
Strandasysla
Zooarchaeology
Fishing
Early
Modern
Medieval
NW
Iceland
Sponsors/Funders US National Science Foundation, CUNY, National Museum of Iceland
Country Iceland
Region Strandir
Project Start Year 1990
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

Project Content


Report on initial analysis of Gjogur archaeofauna. More work is continuing on this large collection, for updates contact Tom McGovern (nabo@voicenet.com) or Sophia Perdikaris (sophiap@brooklyn.cuny.edu)


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