Archaeologia Islandica - 01.01.2004, Side 96

Archaeologia Islandica - 01.01.2004, Side 96
Orri Vésteinsson increasing experience and knowledge of the excavators resulted in more attention being paid to individual fea- tures, calling for their separate record- ing and a clear defínition of their rela- tionship to other features. As individ- ual buildings formed the basic strati- graphic units, such features had to be treated as sub-units, often resulting in complex strings of definitions (e.g. "rebuilt drain under third floor of the shortened house no. 9") which were difficult to keep track of in the records and almost impossible to ensure were uniformly applied, e.g. in locational descriptions of artefacts. - In the same vein, increasing attention was being given to features and deposits which did not belong to par- ticular buildings. These had to be given names (e.g. "eastem midden") outside the numerical order of build- ings, and were frequently difficult to relate to the building sequence, not least because they often were treated as single stratigraphic units (although not deserving a number) rather than a series of units. - In the early 1980s the first palaeoento- mologists and zooarchaeologists start- ed to work in Iceland, mostly in close collaboration with Icelandic field archaeologists. Their need for an unambiguous context for their sam- ples no doubt increased the pressure to revise the excavation methodology. By the beginning of the 1990s references to "lists of layers" (jarðlagaskrá, man- nvistarlagaskrá) begin to appear in inter- im reports. These are not comprehensive lists of stratigraphic units but primarily deposits and accumulations as opposed to stmctural remains and features. In other words this was an attempt to sys- tematically record the "soft" materials in between the stones and slabs which were Fig. 8. Open area excavation in Skálholt 2003. Fornleifastofnun Islands. 94
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