Award Abstract # 0809033
Dissertation Improvement Grant Gasir Hinterlands Project

NSF Org: OPP
Office of Polar Programs (OPP)
Recipient: RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
Initial Amendment Date: June 17, 2008
Latest Amendment Date: May 1, 2009
Award Number: 0809033
Award Instrument: Continuing Grant
Program Manager: Anna Kerttula de Echave
OPP
 Office of Polar Programs (OPP)
GEO
 Directorate for Geosciences
Start Date: July 1, 2008
End Date: June 30, 2010 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $29,990.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $29,990.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2008 = $14,920.00
FY 2009 = $15,070.00
History of Investigator:
  • Thomas McGovern (Principal Investigator)
    thomas.h.mcgovern@gmail.com
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: CUNY Hunter College
695 PARK AVE
NEW YORK
NY  US  10065-5024
(212)772-4020
Sponsor Congressional District: 12
Primary Place of Performance: CUNY Hunter College
695 PARK AVE
NEW YORK
NY  US  10065-5024
Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District:
12
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): EK93EZLLBSC4
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s): ASSP-Arctic Social Science
Primary Program Source: 0100CYXXDB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s): 0000, OTHR, 1079
Program Element Code(s): 522100
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.078

ABSTRACT

This Dissertation Improvement Grant, investigator Ramona Harrison/PI Thomas McGovern, proposes to examine local production and imported trade items during the medieval period in Iceland through zooarchaeological investigations that will connect data to a larger environmental archaeology project, the Gasir Hinterlands Project. The larger Gasir project is a highly integrated, interdisciplinary environmental archaeology project to gain insights into social, cultural, material and environmental change in medieval Iceland. Ramona Harrison will be responsible for the excavation and analysis of archaeofauna from four medieval Icelandic sites in order to gain insight into the resilience stategies of local social groups and their adaptations to climate perturbations.

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Harrison, Ramona, Howell M. Roberts, W. Paul Adderley "Gasir in Eyjafjordur: International Exchange and Local Economy in Medieval Iceland" Journal of the North Atlantic , v.1 , 2008 , p.99

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