Archaeologia Islandica - 01.01.2005, Page 48

Archaeologia Islandica - 01.01.2005, Page 48
Yekaterina Krivogorskaya, Sophia Perdikaris &THOMAS H, McGovern medieval contexts at the Akurvík fishing station, but not at the nearby fishing farm of Gjögur. There seem to be differences between these pat- tems and those documented in early modem times, again underlining the danger of an uncritical use of the ethnographic record. -There are indications of a still earli- er fish processing pattern in the basal layers at Akurvík, one which may be complementary to the pattems seen on the Viking Age consumer sites. More early (lOth-llth century) fish producing sites may help resolve this issue. Analysis of the Gjögur collec- tion is ongoing, later work may change some conclusions presented here, and this paper should not be taken as any sort of final statement. New research pro- grams in the West Fjords and in other parts of the North Atlantic offer the prospects for still more effective interdis- ciplinary cooperation. It seems clear that the way forward in fisheries zooarchaeol- ogy in the West Fjords is through sys- tematic comparisons of large archaeofau- na, consistently recovered and analyzed to a comparable standard, and then com- bined with many other data sets to unrav- el the complex picture of pre-modem marine resource use in this region. By combining zooarchaeological approaches (species diversity, element distribution, size and age reconstruction) with loca- tional analysis, paleoclimate, modern fisheries science, historical documents and archaeological excavation, coopera- tive investigations in the near future can be expected to greatly improve our understanding of long-term dynamic interactions of environment, fish and fishermen in Northwest Iceland. Acknowledgements: We would like to thank the people of the West Fjords for their generosity and kind- ness during the field seasons in 1987 and 1990, and especially recognize the invaluable assistance of Dr. Haukur Jóhannesson who first directed our atten- tion to the erosion face at Akurvík and the mound at Gjögur. Thanks are also due to the hard working intemational field crew and the multidisciplinary team of collabo- rators who carried out the field work in the face of challenging weather. The National Museum of Iceland both spon- sored the project and has expertly curated the finds. Generous support was provided by the Icelandic Science Council, US National Science Foundation, City University of New York, Sheffield and Aarhus Universities, and the US NSF Office of Polar Programs- Women in the North program- made the original field- work possible. The analysis is a product of the National Science Foundation Arctic Social Sciences Research Experience for Undergraduates Program and the North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO) and the Leverhulme Trust Project Landscapes Circum Landnám. The NABO radiocarbon dating program has been generously supported by the PSC-CUNY awards program and the Leverhulme Trast Landscapes Circum Landnám Project and Dr. Gordon Cook of SUERC Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory. We would like to thank Colin Amundsen, Matthew Brown, Konrad Smiarowski, Malgorzata Frik, Monika Koczela, Dmitri Chitov, Jonathan Frankel, Eduardo Martinez, Scott Roche, Courtney Scott, Alex Volkov, Shaye Storm and Elina 46
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