Faunal analysis of the early modern Bishop's Farm at Skalholt, Arnessysla Iceland

Title: Faunal analysis of the early modern Bishop's Farm at Skalholt, Arnessysla Iceland
Identifier: d_2009_2013:6c1322b12c78:10885
identifier: 11105
Creator: Hambrecht, George,
Contributor: Thomas H. McGovern
Date: 2011
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Archaeology | Ecodynamics of Modernity | Historical Archaeology | Historical Ecology | Iceland | Post-medieval Archaeology | Zooarchaeology
Abstract: This dissertation presents the analysis of faunal material recovered from middens outside the main complex of the Bishop of Southern Iceland´s Cathedral farm at Skalholt, Arnessysla, Iceland. Issues of diet, deposition patterns, as well as participation in larger trade and intellectual networks addressed. All of these issues are examined in order to investigate larger issues centered around the early modern Atlantic world. The Skalholt material is also compared with the larger body of existing early modern Icelandic archaeofaunal data in order to investigate issues of adaptation and resilience in the face of harsh climatic as well as social and economic conditions.
Type: dissertation
Source: 2009_2013.csv
degree: Ph.D.
Program: Anthropology

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