Coping with Hard Times in NW Iceland: Zooarchaeology, History, and Landscape Archaeology at Finnbogastaðir in the 18th Century

• Main Authors: Edvarsson, Ragnar, Perdikaris, Sophia, McGovern, Thomas H., Zagor, Noah
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2004
• Subjects: North Atlantic; Iceland; Early Modern; Zooarchaeology; Jarðabók; Landscape archaeology; Animal Studies; Anthropology; Biological and Physical Anthropology; Geography; International and Area Studies; Vestfirðir; Strandasýsla; Finnbogastaðir
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/global/18; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/global/article/1017/viewcontent/Norsec12Finnbogastadir.pdf

During a cooperative archaeological project in NW Iceland (Strandasýsla) involving the Icelandic National Museum and Hunter College of the City University of New York.1990 season, a small rescue excavation at the site of Finnbogastaðir generated a quantifiable collection of animal bones dating to th...