Building and keeping house in 19th-century Iceland: Domestic improvements at Hornbrekka, Skagafjörður

Agusta Edwald; Karen Beatrice Milek

Building and keeping house in 19th-century Iceland: Domestic improvements at Hornbrekka, Skagafjörður

Agusta Edwald, Karen Beatrice Milek

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Abstract

This article looks at nineteenth and early twentieth century architecture and the material culture assemblages from the small farm of Hornbrekka in North Iceland. The discussion centres on the two interrelated processes of building and keeping house at the farm. An archaeological investigation into these activities provides a nuanced, bottom up investigation into the maerial conditiosn at a rural farm in Iceland during a period of improvement and modernization.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	9-27
Number of pages	18
Journal	Archaeologia Islandica
Volume	10
Publication status	Published - 2013

Bibliographical note

This paper contains material from Agusta Edwald's dissertation, which was supervised by Karen Milek.

Keywords

Later historical archaeology
Household archaeology
Material culture
Turf houses

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Building and keeping house in 19th-century Iceland: Domestic improvements at Hornbrekka, Skagafjörður

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