Garðar Guðmundsson
Biographic Data
| ID | 211225 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Garðar Guðmundsson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Garðar |
| FAMILY NAME | Guðmundsson |
| SIGNATURE | GUÐMUNDSSON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iceland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Was it for walrus? Viking Age settlement and medieval walrus ivory trade in Iceland and Greenland
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 …
Charred remains of grains and seeds from the medieval high-status farm site of Reykholt in western Iceland
Iceland was settled, primarily by peoples from Norway and the northern British Isles, in the 9th and 10th centuries. The first settlers brought with them from their homelands an agricultural system based on animal husbandry, of which cereal cultivation was an element and also with inputs from fishing, hunting and gathering of wild plants. There are strong indications that barley was cultivated during the first centuries in some parts of the count…
Assessing the role of winter grazing in historic land degradation, Mývatnssveit, northeast Iceland
This paper assesses the contribution of historical and traditional winter grazing to long‐term land degradation in northeast Iceland. To do so, indicators of soil erosion from two contrasting historical winter grazing areas, set in a tephrochronological framework, are compared against their temporal and regional land degradation contexts. The observations made indicate distinctive and different landscape responses to historical winter grazing dep…
C Dating of the Settlement of Iceland
The dating of the settlement of Iceland has been debated for many years. According to written sources (sagas) from the early 12th century, the first Norwegian settlers arrived in Iceland in AD 874. However, some 14 C dates from the earliest archaeological sites in Iceland, invariably from samples of birch and other indigenous wood species, have yielded surprisingly old ages, older by 100–150 yr than the historical date, suggesting that the settle…
Soil Limitations to Agrarian Land Production in Premodern Iceland
A reinterpretation of the great pit at Hofstaðir, Iceland using sediment thin section micromorphology
The site at Hofstaðir in northeast Iceland has been central to the debate on pre-Christian Norse temples and temple-farm complexes throughout the Scandinavian world. Critical to an understanding of the site have been the various and conflicting interpretations of the great pit feature, which have included the hypotheses that it was intentionally made for the disposal of rubbish after temple feasts, that it was a cooking pit for large-scale food p…
Gathering and processing of lyme-grass (Elymus arenarius L.) in Iceland
Was it for walrus? Viking Age settlement and medieval walrus ivory trade in Iceland and Greenland
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 …
Assessing the role of winter grazing in historic land degradation, Mývatnssveit, northeast Iceland
This paper assesses the contribution of historical and traditional winter grazing to long‐term land degradation in northeast Iceland. To do so, indicators of soil erosion from two contrasting historical winter grazing areas, set in a tephrochronological framework, are compared against their temporal and regional land degradation contexts. The observations made indicate distinctive and different landscape responses to historical winter grazing dep…
Soil Limitations to Agrarian Land Production in Premodern Iceland
Gathering and processing of lyme-grass (Elymus arenarius L.) in Iceland
C Dating of the Settlement of Iceland
The dating of the settlement of Iceland has been debated for many years. According to written sources (sagas) from the early 12th century, the first Norwegian settlers arrived in Iceland in AD 874. However, some 14 C dates from the earliest archaeological sites in Iceland, invariably from samples of birch and other indigenous wood species, have yielded surprisingly old ages, older by 100–150 yr than the historical date, suggesting that the settle…
Gathering and processing of lyme-grass (Elymus arenarius L.) in Iceland
A reinterpretation of the great pit at Hofstaðir, Iceland using sediment thin section micromorphology
The site at Hofstaðir in northeast Iceland has been central to the debate on pre-Christian Norse temples and temple-farm complexes throughout the Scandinavian world. Critical to an understanding of the site have been the various and conflicting interpretations of the great pit feature, which have included the hypotheses that it was intentionally made for the disposal of rubbish after temple feasts, that it was a cooking pit for large-scale food p…
Soil Limitations to Agrarian Land Production in Premodern Iceland
Assessing the role of winter grazing in historic land degradation, Mývatnssveit, northeast Iceland
This paper assesses the contribution of historical and traditional winter grazing to long‐term land degradation in northeast Iceland. To do so, indicators of soil erosion from two contrasting historical winter grazing areas, set in a tephrochronological framework, are compared against their temporal and regional land degradation contexts. The observations made indicate distinctive and different landscape responses to historical winter grazing dep…
C Dating of the Settlement of Iceland
The dating of the settlement of Iceland has been debated for many years. According to written sources (sagas) from the early 12th century, the first Norwegian settlers arrived in Iceland in AD 874. However, some 14 C dates from the earliest archaeological sites in Iceland, invariably from samples of birch and other indigenous wood species, have yielded surprisingly old ages, older by 100–150 yr than the historical date, suggesting that the settle…
Charred remains of grains and seeds from the medieval high-status farm site of Reykholt in western Iceland
Iceland was settled, primarily by peoples from Norway and the northern British Isles, in the 9th and 10th centuries. The first settlers brought with them from their homelands an agricultural system based on animal husbandry, of which cereal cultivation was an element and also with inputs from fishing, hunting and gathering of wild plants. There are strong indications that barley was cultivated during the first centuries in some parts of the count…
Was it for walrus? Viking Age settlement and medieval walrus ivory trade in Iceland and Greenland
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 …
Geography (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (4 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Biology (3 works) · Geology (3 works) · Agroforestry (2 works) · Agronomy (2 works) · Ecology (2 works)