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World Archaeology | 2015

Was it for walrus? Viking Age settlement and medieval walrus ivory trade in Iceland and Greenland

Karin Margarita Frei; Ashley N. Coutu; Konrad Smiarowski; Ramona Harrison; Christian K. Madsen; Jette Arneborg; Robert Frei; Gardar Guðmundsson; Søren M. Sindbæk; James Woollett; Steven Hartman; Megan Hicks; Thomas H. McGovern

Abstract Walrus-tusk ivory and walrus-hide rope were highly desired goods in Viking Age north-west Europe. New finds of walrus bone and ivory in early Viking Age contexts in Iceland are concentrated in the south-west, and suggest extensive exploitation of nearby walrus for meat, hide and ivory during the first century of settlement. In Greenland, archaeofauna suggest a very different specialized long-distance hunting of the much larger walrus populations in the Disko Bay area that brought mainly ivory to the settlement areas and eventually to European markets. New lead isotopic analysis of archaeological walrus ivory and bone from Greenland and Iceland offers a tool for identifying possible source regions of walrus ivory during the early Middle Ages. This opens possibilities for assessing the development and relative importance of hunting grounds from the point of view of exported products.


The Holocene | 2015

Islands of change vs. islands of disaster: Managing pigs and birds in the Anthropocene of the North Atlantic

Seth Brewington; Megan Hicks; Ágústa Edwald; Árni Einarsson; Kesara Anamthawat-Jónsson; Gordon Cook; Philippa L. Ascough; Kerry L. Sayle; Símun V. Arge; Mike J. Church; Julie M. Bond; Steve J. Dockrill; Adolf Friðriksson; George Hambrecht; Árni Daníel Júlíusson; Vidar Hreinsson; Steven Hartman; Konrad Smiarowski; Ramona Harrison; Tom H. McGovern

The offshore islands of the North Atlantic were among some of the last settled places on earth, with humans reaching the Faroes and Iceland in the late Iron Age and Viking period. While older accounts emphasizing deforestation and soil erosion have presented this story of island colonization as yet another social–ecological disaster, recent archaeological and paleoenvironmental research combined with environmental history, environmental humanities, and bioscience is providing a more complex understanding of long-term human ecodynamics in these northern islands. An ongoing interdisciplinary investigation of the management of domestic pigs and wild bird populations in Faroes and Iceland is presented as an example of sustained resource management using local and traditional knowledge to create structures for successful wild fowl management on the millennial scale.


Archive | 2010

Skútustaðir: An Interim Zooarchaeological Report following the 2009 Field Season

Megan Hicks


Archive | 2017

Zooarchaeology of the Scandinavian settlements in Iceland and Greenland

Konrad Smiarowski; Ramona Harrison; Seth Brewington; Megan Hicks; Frank Feeley; Céline Dupont-Hébert; Brenda Prehal; George Hambrecht; James Woollett; Thomas H. McGovern


Archive | 2015

Community and Conservation

Megan Hicks; Árni Einarsson; Kesara Anamthawat-Jónsson; Ágústa Edwald; Ægir Thór Thórsson; Thomas H. McGovern


The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology | 2018

A Movement at the Margins: An Icelandic Rural Transformation at the Edge of the 19th Century Atlantic World

Megan Hicks; Árni Daníel Júlíusson; Ragnhildur Sigurðardóttir; Astrid Ogilvie; Viðar Hreinsson


Quaternary International | 2018

Archaeological sites as Distributed Long-term Observing Networks of the Past (DONOP)

George Hambrecht; Cecillia Anderung; Seth Brewington; Andrew J. Dugmore; Ragnar Edvardsson; Francis Feeley; Kevin Gibbons; Ramona Harrison; Megan Hicks; Rowan Jackson; Guðbjörg Ásta Ólafsdóttir; Marcy Rockman; Konrad Smiarowski; Richard Streeter; Vicki Szabo; Thomas H. McGovern


The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology | 2017

Grassroots modernization: pastoral economies, climate, and political change in Iceland's 18th though 20th centuries

Megan Hicks; Viðar Hreinsson; Árni Daníel Júlíusson; Astrid Ogilvie; Ragnhildur Sigurðardóttir


Developments in earth surface processes | 2016

Chapter 4 - Water and Sustainability in the Lake Mývatn Region of Iceland: Historical Perspectives and Current Concerns

R. Sigurðardóttir; A.E.J. Ogilvie; Á.D. Júlíusson; V. Hreinsson; Megan Hicks


The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology | 2015

Long Term, Community Level Protection and Management of Waterfowl in Mývatn N. Iceland

Megan Hicks; Árni Einarsson; Kesara Anamthawat-Jónsson; Ágústa Edwald; Thomas H. McGovern

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Ramona Harrison

City University of New York

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Konrad Smiarowski

City University of New York

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Seth Brewington

City University of New York

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