Landnám
The settlement of Iceland in archaeological and historical perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3919339 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kevin P Smith (0000-0002-1472-3010, Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 319-347 |
| Publication date | 1995-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00438243.1995.9980280 |
| OpenAlex | W2144010500 |
| Language | CS |
| Citations received | 42 |
| References cited | 33 |
The Norse settlement of Iceland established a viable colony on one of the world's last major uninhabited land masses. The vast corpus of indigenous Icelandic traditions about the country's settlement makes it tempting to view this as one of the best case studies of island colonization by a pre-state society. Archaeological research in some ways supports, but in other ways refutes the historical model. Comparison of archaeological data and historical sources provides insights into the process of island colonization and the role of the settlement process in the formation of a culture's identity and ideology
Icelandic · Settlement (finance · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
Vegetational response to human colonisation of the coastal and volcanic environments of Ketilsstaðir, southern Iceland
L’Anse aux Meadows and Vinland
Domination, Subsistence, and Interdependence
Disequilibrium, Adaptation, and the Norse Settlement of Greenland
Introduction
Place, Identity, and Relations
All that glitters is not gold
Political Regimes and Climate Change
Landnám , Land Use and Landscape Change at Kagaðarhóll in Northwest Iceland
Pollen, Plague & Protestants
The Role of Metallurgy in Transforming Global Forests
Underwater Archaeology in Iceland
Years of environmental change and human impact at Stóra-Mörk, southern Iceland
Disparate impacts of the Eldgjá and Laki flood-lava eruptions
Saga, settlement and sediments at Helgafell, western Iceland
The vegetation and land use histories of two farms in Iceland
Shielings and their surroundings
I Wish I Was Where I Was When I Was Wishing I Was Here
Deeper Histories of Dispossession
New World with a New Sky
Fuel resource utilisation in landscapes of settlement
Ritual responses to catastrophic volcanism in Viking Age Iceland
Metallurgical findings from a Viking Age chieftain’s farm in Iceland
The Viking Age settlement pattern of Langholt, North Iceland
Small Dwelling Sites in the Medieval Settlement of Iceland
A Viking-age Valley in Iceland
Tangled up in Blue’
The Roles of Pit Houses and Gendered Spaces on Viking-Age Farmsteads in Iceland
Composition of the founding population of Iceland
A new subclade of mtDNA haplogroup C1 found in icelanders
Global Patterns in Island Colonization during the Holocene
The Archaeological Record of Human Impacts on Animal Populations
Archaeological, Written, and Palaeoecological Evidence for Environmental Change in the Wake of Settlement in Iceland
Archaeology for the Anthropocene
Land in Landscapes Circum Landnám
Small-Scale Evaluation of a Post-Medieval Blackhouse at Bereiro, Lewis, Western Isles of Scotland
Viking Age Fences and Early Settlement Dynamics in Iceland
Thorir's bargain
Exploring the Longhouse and Community in Tribal Society
Landscapes of Settlement in Northern Iceland
Early Agriculturalist Population Diasporas? Farming, Languages, and Genes
Soil Limitations to Agrarian Land Production in Premodern Iceland
Greenland ice sheet evidence of post-glacial volcanism and its climatic impact
Icelandic Enterprise
Xiii. Tephrochronology and Medieval Iceland
The identification of slags from archaeological sites
Anthropochorous earthworms (Lumbricidae) as indicators of abandoned settlements in the Faroe Islands
Reply to comments on the early settlement of Iceland
High-Precision Bidecadal Calibration of the Radiocarbon Time Scale, AD 1950–500 BC and 2500–6000 BC
Extended 14 C Data Base and Revised Calib 3.0 14 C Age Calibration Program
Modeling Atmospheric 14 C Influences and 14 C Ages of Marine Samples to 10,000 BC
The Sagas as Evidence of Early Deforestation in Iceland
The use of non‐metrical variations of the cranium in the study of Scandinavian population movements
Social status in the Merovingian and Viking periods in Norway from archaeological and historical sources
The Early Settlement of Iceland. Results based on excavations of a Merovingian and Viking farm site at herjólfsdalur in the westman islands, iceland1
Culture and History in Medieval Iceland
Radiocarbon Dating in Eastern Arctic Archaeology
A Genealogical Charter
| Unique citing works | 42 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,68 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2025 (25) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 41 |