Introduction
New Approaches to the Study of the Viking Age Settlement across the North Atlantic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4716016 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T D Price (0000-0001-5951-5621, University of Wisconsin–Madison, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 2018 |
| Issue | sp7 |
| Publication date | 2014-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the North Atlantic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1935-1933 • E-ISSN: 1935-1933 |
| Publisher | Journal of the North Atlantic (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3721/037.002.0sp711 |
| OpenAlex | W2901205377 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 27 |
This volume presents the results of a symposium focused on a project of archaeological research concerned with the colonization of the North Atlantic using new methods of analysis. This introduction to the volume discusses the historical and archaeological background of the study and the major questions involved. The larger issues concern the settlement of a number of the islands of the North Atlantic by Vikings during the last quarter of the first millennium AD. Questions about the timing of this settlement and the place of origin of the settlers are still subject to debate and are important components in constructing the archaeology of the Vikings. More specifically, because these methods involve human remains, the study focuses primarily on Iceland and Greenland where Norse settlements contain substantial numbers of burials, in contrast to some other locations in the North Atlantic
Archaeology · Colonization · Geography · Human settlement · Viking Age · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Historical and Archaeological Studies · History
Viking Age Hedeby and Its Relations with Iceland and the North Atlantic
L’Anse aux Meadows and Vinland
West over Sea
A Neolithic multiple burial from Sumburgh, Shetland
Coastal connections, local fishing, and sustainable egg harvesting
Paleoenvironment and the archaeological record at the L'Anse Aux Meadows Site, Newfoundland
A Viking Age cemetery at Cnip, Uig, Isle of Lewis
A Viking-age Valley in Iceland
The Early Viking Age in Norway
Composition of the founding population of Iceland
Norse settlement of Iceland — close to ad 700
What Was the Viking Age and When did it Happen? A View from Orkney
The Peopling of Iceland
Norse Settlement in the Outer Hebrides
The Place of Greenland in Medieval Icelandic Saga Narrative
Viking Faroes
Endperiod Demographics of the Greenland Norse
Landnám
Bioarchaeological and climatological evidence for the fate of Norse farmers in medieval Greenland
Diet and ethnicity during the Viking colonization of northern Scotland
What caused the Viking Age
The Archeology of the Norse North Atlantic
Viking and Medieval Settlement in the Faroes
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |