Deep Coring, Viking Age Accumulation Rates and Household Wealth in Skagafjörður, Northern Iceland

• Main Author: Johnson, Eric D.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: ScholarWorks at UMass Boston 2015
• Subjects: Accumulations Research; Coring; Farm Mounds; Household Archaeology; Settlement Archaeology; Viking Age; Archaeological Anthropology; European History; Langholt; Skagafjörður; Iceland
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.umb.edu/masters_theses/318; https://scholarworks.umb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1319&context=masters_theses

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...