Puffins, pigs, cod, and barley : palaeoeconomy at Undir Junkarinsfløtti, Sandoy, Faroe

Church, MJ; Arge, SV; Brewington, S; McGovern, TH; Woollett, J; Perdikaris, S; Lawson, IT; Cook, GT; Amundsen, C; Harrison, R; Krivogorskaya, K; Dunbar, E

Abstract

This paper reports on the zooarchaeological and archaeobotanical remains from the first season of excavations at the Norse period site at Undir Junakarinsfløtti in the Faroe islands. These remains represent the first zooarchaeological analysis undertaken for the Faroes and only the third archaeobotanical assemblage published from the islands. The excavated deposits are described and the key findings from the palaeoenvironmental remains highlighted within the context of the wider North Atlantic environmental archaeology of the Norse period.

Citation

Church, M., Arge, S., Brewington, S., McGovern, T., Woollett, J., Perdikaris, S., …Dunbar, E. (2005). Puffins, pigs, cod, and barley : palaeoeconomy at Undir Junkarinsfløtti, Sandoy, Faroe. Environmental Archaeology, 10(2), 179-197

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Oct 1, 2005
• Deposit Date: Feb 2, 2009
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 22, 2009
• Journal: Environmental Archaeology
• Print ISSN: 1461-4103
• Electronic ISSN: 1749-6314
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis Group
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 179-197
• Keywords: Faroes, North Atlantic, Landnam, Zooarchaeology, Archaeobotany.
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1567626
• Publisher URL: http://www.envarch.net/publications/envarch/vol10-2.html