In recent decades the archaeology and history of children and childhood have been an extensive focus of research in North American and western European scholarship. This article discusses issues appropriate for an Icelandic archaeology of children based on the evidence we have so far which is mostly for the

The objective of this study was to reassess the diagnoses of arthritis in skeletons excavated in 1939 at the site of Skeljastadir in Thjórsárdalur, Iceland. In the original palaeopathological report by Professor Jón Steffensen, several cases of polyarthritis were described. The fifty-four available adult skeletons were re-examined using modern

This article presents results of a preliminary analysis of mammal bones from one context in an early modern midden at the Episcopal farm of Skálholt, headquarters for one of two Episcopal sees of Iceland (AD 1056 to 1785). Since 2001, excavations directed by Gavin Lucas of the Archaeological Institute of

Landscape as an idea in archaeology in Iceland has been elevated in present-day research approaches, having its origins in the beginnings of the discipline and profession in the late 19 th century. This paper measures the progress of this idea from a critical perspective by identifying the major pieces

The best-preserved early church site on the Faroe Islands, locally known as Bønhústoftin (English: prayer-house ruin), is located in the settlement of Leirvík on the island of Eysturoy. Although the site is well known it has neither been the subject of a proper archaeological survey nor has it ever