This paper examines the hunting and use of walrus ivory in Iceland from the period of settlement to the Middle Ages.Atlantic walrus rarely have been seen and are only occasionally mentioned in written sources in Iceland, but place-names and skeletal finds prove that the animals have lived on its shores.Although

The past decade has witnessed important advances in research involved with burial archaeology of Late Iron Age Iceland (c.800-1100 AD).Archives have been revised and published, and a total survey of all known sites has generated location models which have been successfully applied to uncover new sites.Modern excavation methods under controlled

As part of a pilot study to evaluate the potential of sourcing obsidian within Iceland, four samples of obsidian artifacts from the Viking settlement of Hofstaðir in northeast Iceland were analyzed.The samples were subjected to non-destruc­tive energy dispersive x-ray fluorescence (edxrf) analysis to identify trace ele­ments which were compared to

As part of the work of the Skagafjörður Archaeological Settlement Survey (SASS), the authors identified burnt barley in a dung matrix at the lowest levels of the Reynistaður farm mound midden (between ca.870 and 1000 AD).Barley in dung, with other wetland seeds, suggests to us that a traditional agro-pastoral Scandinavian

Pre-Christian graves have long been objects of archaeological research in Iceland.However, despite the amount of research devoted to this material it is arguable that the graves themselves have rarely been the actual focus.More often grave goods and morphological aspects have been used to throw light on other issues, such as