Archaeologia Islandica - 01.01.2010, Page 70

RAMONA HARRISON
Premaxilla vs. Cleithrum Relative Proportions
SKÖ SKÖ SKÖ SVK 2 SVK 3 HST 3 HST 4 HRH AKV AKV GJO GJO FBS
PHII PHIV PHV gadid gadid gadíd gadid gadid 24cod22cod AU 2 AU 1 cod
gad gad gad cod cod
□ Cleithrum% □ Premaxiila %
Figure 14. Gadid premaxilla vs. cleithrum relative proportions.
SKÖ = Skuggi in Eyjafjörður (NE); SVK = Sveigakot, HST = Hofstaðir, HRH = Hrísheimar, all
inland sites in Mývatnssveit (NE) displaying gadid consumer profiles. AKV = Akurvík, GJO =
Gjögur, FBS = Finnbogastaðir, all coastal sites in the West Fjords (NW) displaying gadid
producer profiles (sources: Harrison 2010, Perdikaris & McGovern 2008; Krivogorskaya et al.
2005, 2006, Edvardsson et al. 2004).
pastureland had they co-existed in time.
Klausturhús was owned by
Staðartunga (Hreiðarsdóttir et al.
2008:239) and occupied land occasionally
used for sheep winter grazing by the
Möðruvellir monastery (Guðmundsson
1982:39). Cores from the Klausturhús site
were taken in 2008 and the lack of house-
hold refuse midden and the presence of
sheep dung midden materials in the core
profiles suggest usage as animal shelter
rather than a small farm (Harrison
2008:15). Once - and if - there was an
exploitable surplus production of sheep
wool established in the area, was the raw
material derived ffom Skuggi/Klausturhús
and possibly Staðartunga pooled at
Möðruvellir, potentially processed there,
and then exported? Who organized the
potential exchange of these staple goods
and what were the goods given in retum?
Are the Skuggi marine fish collected from
the medieval midden layers a small but
important initial signifier of an exchange
system organized by one of the larger
estates in the valley or fjord?
Fish
The small amount of marine físh recov-
ered from Skuggi is presented as percent-
68