| Summary: | This is a preliminary report of archaeological field work in the Vatnahverfi region of the Norse Eastern Settlement. The Danish Middle Ages & Renaissance Department at The Danish National Museum and the Greenland National Museum and Archives (NKA) collaborated with the Northern Science and Education Center at City University of New York (NORSEC/CUNY) to complete an archaeological project in Southwestern Greenland, in the Qaqortoq Municipality. The work was completed between July 18 th and August 21 st 2007. The project’s main mission was to excavate Norse churchyards (Ø78 and Ø64) in order to determine the time of use of the small Greenlandic churches and their churchyards, by collection of datable material and bone samples for DNA and isotopic studies conducted by Dr. Jette Arneborg. The 2007 field season connected the Churches, Christianity and Chieftains project with the Vatnahverfi Settlement project. The responsibility for sondage trenches at several Norse farms were shared by both CUNY and the Danish National Museum. This preliminary report only describes the work done as a part of midden prospecting (the trenches) and omits all the work on the churchyards. All documentation produced; including photographs, plans, drawings, registers, GPS and coring data, is on file with The Middle Ages and Renaissance Dep. of the Danish National Museum. Field director for the project was Niels Algreen Møller assisted by Konrad Śmiarowski, Christian Koch Madsen, Poul Baltzer Heide, Lousie Felding, Louise Johansen and helpful and kind people of Greenland.
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