Geostatistical approach to a spatial, multi-element dataset from an archaeological site in Vatnsfjörður, Iceland

• Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
• Main Authors: Mikolajczyk, Lukasz, Milek, Karen
• Other Authors: University of Aberdeen.Geosciences, University of Aberdeen.Archaeology, University of Aberdeen.The North
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Iceland; Geochemistry; Geo-spatial analysis; Activity zone; Data fusion; Coastal archaeology; Early-modern; principal components analysis; Multi-element mapping; CC Archaeology; CC
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2164/9259; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.08.036

The research was funded through a scholarship awarded by the University of Aberdeen's FAR North programme, and by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. We are very grateful to Fornleifastofnun Islands and the crew of the 2013 field school at Vatnsfjorður for their support with fieldwork, especially Oskar Gísli Sveinbjarnarson, Dawn Elise Mooney and Garðar Guðmundsson. We would also like to express our gratitude to James Parker, Kayleihg Hamilton and OLYMPUS Corporation for providing the ‘Olympus-Innov-X Delta Premium XRF’ scanner. We are indebted to Edward Schoffield for proof-reading and editing the manuscript. We would also like to thank two anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments. Peer reviewed