Ramona Harrison

Biographic Data

ID3832861
NAMERamona Harrison
GIVEN NAMESRamona
FAMILY NAMEHarrison
SIGNATUREHARRISON R
AFFILIATIONSThe Graduate Center, CUNY
ORCID0000-0003-0242-9401
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS79
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX4

  • A millennium of Icelandic archaeological fish data examined against marine climate records

    Open AccessGeorge Hambrecht, Frank Feeley et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2022

    This article combines new marine fish faunal data from medieval and early modern Icelandic archaeological sites with previously published data that focused primarily on the Settlement and Commonwealth periods. This synthesis places these new data into the larger scale of Icelandic history and marine conditions (sea-surface temperature and sea ice) to identify patterns and trends across the last 1000 years of the relationship between humans and Ic…

  • Machine learning ATR-FTIR spectroscopy data for the screening of collagen for ZooMS analysis and mtDNA in archaeological bone

    Open AccessManasij Pal Chowdhury, Kaustabh Datta Choudhury et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2021Cited by: 2References: 45

  • Archaeological sites as Distributed Long-term Observing Networks of the Past (Donop)

    Open AccessGeorge Hambrecht, Cecilia Anderung et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2020

  • The Wide Lens in Archaeology

    Open AccessJeffrey A Blakely, Inbar Ktalav et al.BOOKWide Lens in Archaeology2017

    This book honors the memory of Brian Hesse, a scholar of Near Eastern archaeology, a writer of alliterative and punned publication titles, and an accomplished amateur photographer. Hesse specialized in zooarchaeology, but he influenced a wider range of excavators and ancient historians with his broad interpretive reach. He spent much of his career analyzing faunal materials from different countries in the Middle East-including Iran, Yemen, and Is…

  • Flair of the Dog The Philistine Consumption of Canines

    Open AccessJustin Lev-Tov, Paula Hesse et al.CHAPTERWide Lens in Archaeology2017

    This book honors the memory of Brian Hesse, a scholar of Near Eastern archaeology, a writer of alliterative and punned publication titles, and an accomplished amateur photographer. Hesse specialized in zooarchaeology, but he influenced a wider range of excavators and ancient historians with his broad interpretive reach. He spent much of his career analyzing faunal materials from different countries in the Middle East-including Iran, Yemen, and Is…

  • Islands of change vs. islands of disaster

    Open AccessSeth Brewington, M Hicks et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2015Cited by: 11References: 19

    The offshore islands of the North Atlantic were among some of the last settled places on earth, with humans reaching the Faroes and Iceland in the late Iron Age and Viking period. While older accounts emphasizing deforestation and soil erosion have presented this story of island colonization as yet another social–ecological disaster, recent archaeological and paleoenvironmental research combined with environmental history, environmental humanitie…

  • Was it for walrus? Viking Age settlement and medieval walrus ivory trade in Iceland and Greenland

    Karin Margarita Frei, Ashley N Coutu et al.ARTICLEWorld Archaeology2015Cited by: 42References: 27

    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 …

  • Urbanization in Reykjavík

    Open AccessRamona Harrison, Mjöll SnæsdóttirARTICLEJournal of the North Atlantic2012Cited by: 1References: 7

    Reykjavík, capital of Iceland, developed from a dispersed rural settlement to nucleated urban community during the last 250 years. Prior to the mid-18th century, Iceland was a rural society that lacked towns or even substantial villages, with seasonal market centers and elite manor farms managing economic activities for widely dispersed farms and seasonal fishing stations. This paper focuses on two downtown Reykjavík faunal collections as part of…

  • Gásir in Eyjafjörđur

    Open AccessRamona Harrison, Howell M Roberts et al.ARTICLEJournal of the North Atlantic2008Cited by: 7References: 19

    The site of Gásir in Eyjafjörđur in northeast Iceland was excavated from 2001–2006, revealing details of one of the larger seasonal trading centers of medieval Iceland. Interdisciplinary investigations of the site have shed light upon the organization of the site and provided confirmation of documentary accounts of both prestige items (gyrfalcons, walrus ivory) and bulk goods (sulphur) concentrated for export. Gásir was a major point of cultural …

  • Puffins, Pigs, Cod and Barley

    Mike J Church, Símun V Arge et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Archaeology2005Cited by: 16References: 10

    This paper reports on the zooarchaeological and archaeobotanical remains from the initial season of excavations at the Norse period site at Undir Junkarinsfløtti 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 highlight…