Puffins, pigs, cod and barley: palaeoeconomy at Undir Junkarinsflotti, Sandoy, Faroe Islands

This paper reports on the zooarchaeological and archaeobotanical remains from the initial season of excavations at the Norse period site at Undir Junkarinsfløtti in the Faroe islands. These remains represent the first zooarchaeological analysis undertaken for the Faroes and only the third archaeobot...

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Published in:Environmental Archaeology
Main Authors: Church, Mike J., Arge, Simun V., Brewington, Seth, McGovern, Thomas H., Woollett, Jim M., Perdikaris, Sophia, Lawson, Ian T., Cook, Gordon T., Amundsen, Colin, Harrison, Ramona, Krivogorskaya, Yekaterina, Dunbar, Elaine
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Maney Publishing 2005
Subjects:
Faroe Islands
Sandoy
Faroes
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/11583/
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Summary:This paper reports on the zooarchaeological and archaeobotanical remains from the initial season of excavations at the Norse period site at Undir Junkarinsfløtti in the Faroe islands. These remains represent the first zooarchaeological analysis undertaken for the Faroes and only the third archaeobotanical assemblage published from the islands. The excavated deposits are described and the key findings from the palaeoenvironmental remains highlighted within the context of the wider North Atlantic environmental archaeology of the Norse period.

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