Preliminary Report of Animal Bones from Hrísheimur, Mývatn District, Northern Iceland

• Main Authors: Perdikaris, Sophia, McGovern, Thomas H.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2002
• Subjects: Animal Studies; Anthropology; Geography; International and Area Studies; Arctic; Mývatn; atlantic cod; Iceland
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/global/16; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/global/article/1015/viewcontent/Norsec6Hrisheimar01.pdf

In 2000 and 2001 the FSl / NABO project Landscapes of Settlement in Northern Iceland collected animal bones from the heavily eroded site of Hrísheimur south of lake Mývatn. The 2001 season produced a substantial archaeofauna from a 2 x 2 meter test excavation of a midden deposit that apparently fill...