Comparing levels of subsistence stress amongst Norse settlers in Iceland and Greenland using levels of bone fat exploitation as an indicator

• Published in: Environmental Archaeology
• Main Author: Outram, Alan K
• Other Authors: University of Exeter
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxbow Books for the Association for Environmental Archaeology 2003
• Subjects: Norse; Iceland; Greenland; bone marrow; bone grease; fat; subsistence; The Ribs; greenlander*; greenlandic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10036/29396; https://doi.org/10.1179/env.2003.8.2.119

Reproduced with permission of the publisher. Copyright © Oxbow Books and the Association for Environmental Archaeology 2003. The background to the Icelandic and Greenlandic sites under investigation is outlined and prior work on the Norse economies of the two islands is discussed. The importance of...