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	Fornleifakönnun á verbúðarleifum á Gufuskálum, Snæfellsnesi - Bráðabirgðaskýrsla In 2008 the focus of investigations at Gufuskálar, a well known fishing station, were three badly eroded mounds close to the shore line. The aim was to clean the profiles and cast light on the nature of the remains, preservation etc. Four profiles were cleaned and recorded. It is clear from the results that all three mounds contain substantial cultural remains. Many finds were retrieved although none were useful in the dating process - except a chess pice, retrieved from the bottom of one section, dated roughly to the 14th-15th centuries. Tephras were not of any help as can be...
	Preliminary Assessment of the faunal remains from the 2008 excavations at Gufuskálar, Snæfellsnes This report is regarding the zooarchaeological remains excavated from Gufuskálar, on the north coast of Snæfellsnes in the west of Iceland, during the summer of 2008.
	Mammal Consumption at the Medieval Fishing Station at Gufuskálar This report details the analysis of mammal bones recovered from one of the four trenches excavated at the medieval fishing station of Gufuskálar during the summer of 2011. During excavation it was noted that there seemed to be a high proportion of mammal bones recovered which correspond with high quality cuts of meat. This was counter to assumptions regarding the economic status of fishermen during the medieval era as these cuts of meat would be rather expensive. The preliminary zooarchaeological analysis from Trench 8 suggests that the people fishing at Gufuskálar were eating rather well.
	The Final Report on the Archaeofauna from Context 147 at the Medieval Fishing Station at Gufuskálar, Western Iceland. The 15th century commercial fishing station at Gufuskálar is anomalous among fishing stations in Iceland - at least those have been excavated thus far. Rich in imported artifacts and well-provisioned with expensive foods the fishers at Gufuskálar were clearly not only impoverished tenant farmer/fishers as was often the case in better documented early modern times. This report details the zooarchaeological analysis of one of the contexts excavated during the 2013 field season from a dense midden deposit dated to the early to mid-15th century CE. The large number of bones analyzed gives us a...
	2011 Archaeological investigations on the fishing station at Gufuskálar, Snæfellsnes Following assessment in 2008, when four erosion scars were cleaned back and sections drawn, an archaeological excavation took place in 2011. The focus within the site was on the two main mounds by the sea which are under threat by active marine and wind erosion. Based on work done in 2008, four trenches (Tr. Nr. 5,6,7 and 8) were placed in the most eroded areas of the two mounds. A new topographic survey was done on the two mounds but also on other visible structures such as the farm mounds and alleged þurrabúðs. In total, an area of about 7.2 hectares was covered and around 47 structures...