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Charred remains of grains and seeds from the medieval high-status farm site of Reykholt in western Iceland

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  • Garðar Guðmundsson
  • Guðrún Sveinbjarnardóttir
  • Gordon Hillman

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Iceland was settled, primarily by peoples from Norway and the northern British Isles, in the 9th and 10th centuries. The first settlers brought with them from their homelands an agricultural system based on animal husbandry, of which cereal cultivation was an element and also with inputs from fishing, hunting and gathering of wild plants. There are strong indications that barley was cultivated during the first centuries in some parts of the country and that cultivation was at least attempted in other areas. However, Iceland is near the climatic limits of the barley-growing zone, and it is open to discussion how reliable a food source locally grown barley would have been. This paper discusses a seed assemblage of cultivated barley and archetypical weeds of cereal crops dated to between the 10th and 12th centuries AD obtained during archaeological excavations at the high status farm of Reykholt in western Iceland.

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  • Garðar Guðmundsson & Guðrún Sveinbjarnardóttir & Gordon Hillman, 2012. "Charred remains of grains and seeds from the medieval high-status farm site of Reykholt in western Iceland," Environmental Archaeology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(2), pages 111-117, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:yenvxx:v:17:y:2012:i:2:p:111-117
    DOI: 10.1179/1461410312Z.0000000009
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