Deep coring, Viking Age accumulation rates and household wealth in Skagafjörður, Northern Iceland

• Main Author: Johnson, Eric D.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Massachusetts Boston 2015
• Subjects: Archaeology; Langholt; Skagafjörður; Iceland
• Online Access: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1590680

Discerning and explaining social and economic differences is a fundamental task of archaeology, but a fine-tuned measure of household wealth is often obfuscated by the inability to account for time or demographics in the archaeological record. This project tests the ways that Iceland, settled by Nor...