Fyrirlestraröð Félags fornleifafræðinga: Delaney Dammeyer

Delaney Dammeyer flytur fyrirlestur í fyrirlestraröð Félags fornleifafræðinga í stofu 202 í Odda, miðvikudaginn 19. febrúar kl. 12. Erindið nefnist „On Water: An Entangled Approach to Water Use at Kirkjubæjarklaustur and Þingeyraklaustur".

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Útdráttur

Water and other non-living natural forces are not often studied in archaeological sites. Archaeologists like Ian Hodder use the frame of entanglement – in which things and people are interdependent on one another and each is constantly influencing the identity and meaning of the other – to talk about historic communities and their relationship to the natural world.

Entanglement is also useful in a multi-disciplinary, multidata point approach and will form the basis of this research on the use and organization of water at Kirkjubæjarklaustur and Þingeyraklaustur. In doing so, information from landscape analysis, review of primary source literature, and traditional archaeological analysis can be looked at together as connected. Readings of Icelandic medieval literature formed a basis of knowledge about water features and the shape of the environmental around the year 1200. Landscape analysis through the program ArcGIS then puts water features in context to the archaeological site and measured numerous changes to the natural world of the monastic sites.

Finally, analysis of artifact and stratigraphy data was conducted within the continuum of landscape and literary data. These data are presented and considered as small, interconnected parts of a whole environmental story of monasticism in Iceland.