As part of a cooperative archaeological project in NW Iceland (Strandasýsla) involving the National Museum of Iceland and Hunter College of the City University of New York, a small rescue excavation at the site of Finnbogastaðir generated a quantifiable collection of animal bones dating to the early modern period, mainly

The Norse settlement of Greenland, and its demise, is discussed in terms of archaeological, written historical and other evidence which point to a fatal decline in the early 15th century. Using Iceland as the model, it is suggested to view the fall ultimately in terms of the mainly English penetration

The paper discusses some similarities between substantial earthworks in Suður-Þingeyjarsýsla (presented in ArchIs vol 2) and the 'great chains' of hill dykes found in W Norway and in the Scottish Northern isles. Keywords: Earthworks, dykes, landnám, settlement structure

As part of the work of the Skagafjörður Archaeological Settlement Survey (SASS) we ran 80 loss-on-ignition (LoI) tests to assess biases in identifying buried highly organic turf walls. In these tests, the organic content of soil samples was burned off to determine the percentage of organic material. Keywords:geoarchaeology, Viking Age, peat,

Farm houses have been the principal focus of archaeological fieldwork in Iceland since the close of the 19th century. The results of these excavations make up the larger part of archaeological information available regarding Iceland, a corpus that is to a large extent published and available for scrutiny. Several papers that