Project Details: Study of local subsistence and trans-Atlantic regional trading economy in medieval Iceland

Project Description

Parent Project Title: Sub Projects	Gásir Hinterlands Project Midden in Möðruvellir Myrkárdalur Möðruvellir í Hórgárdal Oddstaðir Skuggi
Title:	Study of local subsistence and trans-Atlantic regional trading economy in medieval Iceland
Description	Goal of this project is to gain a better understanding of the interaction of local subsistence and trans-Atlantic regional trading economy in medieval Iceland by collecting faunal materials and other environmental data from deeply stratified middens associated with archaeological sites in Eyjafjörður in the Northeast of Iceland. The Gásir hinterlands project (GHP) aims at the integration of documentary sources, site-focused environmental archaeology, and an integrative regional landscape approach to better understand economic and environmental relationships of farms within the Eyjafjörður region that played an integral part in the food supply and exchange net connected with activities at the Gásir market place.
Keywords:	Trade Exchange Zooarchaeology Gásir midden excavations
Sponsors/Funders	National Science Foundation, CUNY NORSEC, NABO, Fornleifasjóður, Iceland, Icelandic Archaeological Institute (FSÍ)
Country	Iceland
Project Start Year	2006
Project End Year	Ongoing

	This official FSÍ/NORSEC/IPY report covers the Gásir Hinterlands Project´s 2008 field season , directed by Howell M. Roberts (FSÍ) and Ramona Harrison (CUNY).
	This report presents the results from the 2009 field season and some initial finds reports by specialists. Data registers and matrices are appended.