Preliminary Report of Archaeological Fieldwork at Svalbard (Svalbardshreppur), 2008 (field report)

• Main Author: Woollett, Jim
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: the Digital Archaeological Record
• Subjects: Data Recovery / Excavation; Systematic Survey; Svalbard; Hamlet / village; Domestic Structures; Agricultural or Herding; Midden; Ceramic; Fauna; Arctic; Iceland; North Atlantic; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.6067:XCV8W0948T_meta$v=1317074454718

This document is a preliminary report of archaeological fieldwork conducted at and around the farm of Svalbard, Svalbardshreppur, in June 2008. An initial evaluation of the archaeological potential of Svalbard was made by archaeologists of the Iceland Palaeoeconomy Project (IPP) in 1986, revealing t...