Iceland - Viking Mosfell 1063

Iceland - Viking Mosfell 1063

Culture,Intangible Heritage

Working with the Mosfell Archaeological Project (MAP) – members of the MAP Project, Davide Zori Phd and Professor Jesse Byock. Mosfell is in the region East of Reykjavik, Iceland. In 2007, (Scandinavian Section, and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA) was awarded a five-year grant from Arcadia, administered by CMRS, to complete and document the research of the first eleven years of the Mosfell Archaeological Project (MAP), an interdisciplinary research project employing the tools of archaeology, history, anthropology, forensics, environmental sciences, and saga studies. MAP is constructing a comprehensive picture of human habitation and environmental change in the Mosfell region of western Iceland during the Middle Ages. The story of how the archaeological research into the farm at Hrísbrú, which was the home of the Mossfellsdælingar – a powerful Viking family of leaders, warrioirs, farmers and legal specialists, can be illuminated through the stories found in the later Sagas and other historical writings of the Icelanders. Using the data that was gathered during that time, we created a 3D reconstruction scale model of the site as it would have been around 1063.

reconstructions

2014

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Reconstruction

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https://www.openvirtualworlds.org/mosfell/

https://player.vimeo.com/video/1107078033

Open Virtual Worlds Team University of St Andrews

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A digital landscape was created using survey data and a height map. Models were created in 3D modelling programs.

A collaboration with the Mosfell Archaeology Project. The research, in reconstructing the early social history of the Mosfell Valley region, will integrate information on the changing periods of occupation. We will excavate individual sites, both secular and religious, and consider their placement in relationship to one another. We will examine the apportionment of open spaces and the utilization of common lands in the highlands and on the coast. Written, archaeological, and other scientific information will be integrated into this study as we construct a picture of early life.

Davide Zori (Baylor University), Jesse Byock (UCLA)

Sarah Kennedy, Iain Oliver, Alan Miller

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