This short paper is a liberal transcription of an interview that took place with Mjöll Snæsdóttir in Reykjavík in 2008 about her life in archaeology. She reflects back on her career so far and the many people she has worked alongside, giving the reader a highly personal insight into

In the North Atlantic, from Greenland to Arctic Norway, farm-mounds dominate the cultural landscape from the late Viking age onwards. They have been the subject of considerable debate among North Norwegian archaeologists but in this paper Icelandic farm-mounds are placed in the foreground. Based on several large scale excavations

Thomas H. McGovern has been a pioneering researcher in the North Atlantic region for most of the past 40 years. He has taken his specialty in zooarchaeology beyond counting bones to actually addressing questions about human environment interactions and human response to extreme environmental events. A prolific writer and

This paper provides archaeological data from a midden excavation that was part of the Gásir Hinterlands Project carried out in 2008-09. Spatial and temporal data on this small scale inland farm is presented and especially the results from the faunal but also the finds analyses are discussed. Skuggi was

To better understand the daily lives and living conditions of late 19th and early 20th-century Icelandic farmers, archaeoentomological analyses were undertaken using sediment samples collected at the site of Vatnsfjörður, in the Westfjords. Used in a contextual and multidisciplinary analytical framework, the analysis of preserved insect remains from multiple

This paper outlines the history behind the use of aerial sources (photographs and satellite imagery) in archaeology in Iceland. While aerial archaeology is an established and routinely used practice alongside other prospection techniques and non-intrusive surveys in many other European countries, in Iceland it is relatively under-utilised. Even so