Regional Variation in Grass, Sedge, and Cereal Cultivation During the Viking Age in Skagafjörður, North Iceland

• Main Author: Ritchey, Melissa M.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: ScholarWorks at UMass Boston 2019
• Subjects: archaeobotany; fodder; landscape archaeology; settlement patterns; subsistence strategies; Viking Age Iceland; Archaeological Anthropology; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Paleontology; Arctic; Skagafjörður; Iceland
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.umb.edu/masters_theses/576; https://scholarworks.umb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1577&context=masters_theses

In Viking Age and Medieval Iceland, livestock forage was a critical resource in the Norse agropastoral economy. Cereal cultivation, typically an important part of the Norse economy, may have been more limited in marginal sub-Arctic Iceland. An analysis of macrobotanical seed assemblages from archaeo...