Report of the Preliminary Inspection of Faunal Material at the Svalbard Museum, Longyearbyen, Svalbard

The archaeological potential of Svalbard in the circum-Arctic context continues to be overlooked and its zooarchaeology in particular is much undervalued. Svalbard is far away and expensive to travel to, so without a stepping-stone, no one is simply going to pick up a project on animal bones. We the...

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Main Authors: Kohlhage, Lea, Kruse, Frigga
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: Zenodo 2022
Subjects:
Arctic
Svalbard
Spitsbergen
archaeology
zooarchaeology
museum
animal bones
historical ecology
Longyearbyen
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7381194
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Summary:The archaeological potential of Svalbard in the circum-Arctic context continues to be overlooked and its zooarchaeology in particular is much undervalued. Svalbard is far away and expensive to travel to, so without a stepping-stone, no one is simply going to pick up a project on animal bones. We therefore went through the trouble of gathering the material presented here in order to provide such a stepping-stone and to inspire future research in Arctic zooarchaeology and historical ecology.

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