Early settlement in the North Atlantic produced complex interactions of culture and nature.
The sustained program of interdisciplinary collaboration is intended to focus on ninth‐to 13th …

Changing economies and patterns of trade, rather than climatic deterioration, could have
critically marginalized the Norse Greenland settlements and effectively sealed their fate …

Abstract Why did the Norse Icelanders colonize Greenland in the late tenth century AD, and
why did they explore the coasts of Labrador and Newfoundland? Was it a desperate search …

Abstract The'Landscapes of Settlement Project'has carried out archaeological and
paleoenvironmental research in the Lake Mývatn region of N. Iceland since 1996. Animal …

Animals have been used to human advantage for thousands of years.'Animal Husbandry in
Ancient Israel'presents an analysis of caprines and cattle husbandry in the Southern …

An archaeological survey of the Viking Age settlement pattern in the Langholt region of
North Iceland suggests that being early in this sequence conferred tremendous advantages …

Abstract Excavations in 1990 in North-West Iceland documented a stratified series of small
turf structures and associated midden deposits at the eroding beach at Akurvík which date …

This paper presents the results of sustained investigations in Iceland over the past two
decades, which have produced large archaeofauna from both coastal and inland sites …

The site of Gásir in Eyjafjörđur in northeast Iceland was excavated from 2001–2006,
revealing details of one of the larger seasonal trading centers of medieval Iceland …

This article is aimed at encouraging scholars to continue to take critical, interdisciplinary
approaches to understanding the cause and scale of historic plague outbreaks. It does this …