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Orri Vésteinsson - Professor

Orri Vésteinsson

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Orri Vésteinsson

Professor

Professor in archaeology

Location
Árnagarður
Email
orri [at] hi.is

Unit
Faculty of Philosophy, History and Archaeology
Published Work
Orri Vésteinsson - published work

Curriculum Vitae
Orri Vésteinsson - Curriculum Vitae
Consultation hours
By appointment
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3004-646X
Research portal – Orri Vésteinsson

Courses 2024 - 2025

Published works

2024

The Future of Periodization. Dissecting the Legacy of Culture HistoryCambridge Archaeological Journal

2023

Comunidades políticas en época vikinga: los barcos y la formación de nuevos reinos
The formation of a native elite

2021

Five thousand years of fire history in the high North Atlantic regionClimate of the Past
Multidisciplinary Chronological Data from Iceland Indicate a Viking Age Settlement Flood, Rather Than a Flow or Trickle

2020

Three burial customs in late 10th century Iceland
Forn kirkja og grafreitur í Neðra Ási í HjaltadalÁrbók Hins íslenska fornleifafélags
Eskimóar á Húsavík og upphaf geislakolsaldursgreininga á Íslandi

2019

State formation and world view
Polities, neighbourhoods and things in-between
Dating religious changeJournal of Social Archaeology
Trolls, Water, Time, and Community
Enhancing radiocarbon chronologies of colonizationRadiocarbon
Dimensions of inequality. Comparing the North Atlantic and the US SouthwestJournal of Anthropological Archaeology
Ofbeldi sem pólitísk aðferð í íslensku miðaldasamfélagi
Conclusions

2018

Hvar réru fornmenn til fiskjar?Saga: tímarit Sögufélags
How ¹⁴C dates on wood charcoal increase precision when dating colonizationQuaternary Geochronology
Palaeoenvironmental evidence for woodland conservation in Northern Iceland from settlement to the twentieth centuryEnvironmental Archaeology
Nautical nostalgia

2017

Landnámskjarni við ÓsHeimaslóð. Árbók Hörgársveitar
New DiscoveriesArchaeologia Islandica
New DiscoveriesArchaeologia Islandica
Local church organisation and state formation in medieval Iceland
Tephra isochrons and chronologies of colonisationQuaternary Geochronology

2016

The colonisation of Iceland in light of isotope analysesJournal of the North Atlantic
Conversion and cultural change
Commercial fishing and the political economy of medieval Iceland

2015

Defining the medieval in Icelandic archaeology
Constructing chronologies in Viking Age IcelandJournal of Archaeological Science

2014

Þjóðminjar sem innviðirÁrbók Hins íslenska fornleifafélags
Shopping for Identities
Expensive errors or rational choicesEuropean Journal of Post-Classical Archaeologies

2013

Collapse or resilience?
What is in a booth?Journal of the North Atlantic
The Svalbarð projectArchaeologia Islandica
North Atlantic Migrations in the Viking Age

2012

Upphaf máldagabók a og stjórnsýslu biskupaGripla
Shieling AreasHuman Ecology
Reply to Comments from James H. Barrett, Kevin J. Edwards, Jón Viᶞar Sigurᶞsson, Guᶞrún Sveinbjarnardóttir and Przemysław UrbańczykNorwegian Archaeological Review
Plague and landscape resilience in premodern IcelandProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
The Peopling of IcelandNorwegian Archaeological Review
Cultural adaptation, compounding vulnerabilities and conjunctures in Norse GreenlandProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Black sun, high flame, and flood

2011

Innflutt fé í haugum
Íslandssögunnar
Mannvist
Mannvist
Mannvist
Landscapes of burialArchaeologia Islandica
A note on the regional distribution of pagan burials in IcelandArchaeologia Islandica
Kaupskipahöfnin Gásir í EyjafirðiSkírnir
Forn byggð á Krókdal

2010

Menningararfur á markaðstorgiTímarit Máls og menningar
On farm-moundsArchaeologia Islandica
Ethnicity and class in settlement period Iceland
Landnám ímyndunaraflsins
Parishes and communities in Norse Greenland

2009

Chapter 3. The Structural Sequence
Upphaf goðaveldis á Íslandi
A medieval merchants’ church in Gásir, North IcelandHikuin

2008

Archaeology of Economy and Society
Local-scale adaptationsGeoarchaeology
A divided society. Peasants and the aristocracy in medieval IcelandViking and Medieval Scandinavia

2007

Abandoned farms, volcanic impacts, and woodland managementArctic Anthropology
Landscapes of settlement in Northern IcelandAmerican Anthropologist
Communities of dispersed settlements. Social organization atthe ground level in tenth to thirteenth-century Iceland
“Hann reisti hof mikið hundrað fóta langt ...”Saga: tímarit Sögufélags

2006

Can there be a correspondence between Icelandic palynological and settlement evidence?
Central areas in Iceland
Fornleifar og rannsóknir í Skálholti

2005

Archaeology of Economy and Society
The formative phase of the Icelandic Church c. 990-1240 AD

2004

Recent Investigations at Hofstaðir, northern Iceland
Fuel utilisation in pre-industrial Iceland
ÞingvallakirkjaÁrbók Hins íslenska fornleifafélags
Icelandic farmhouse excavationsArchaeologia Islandica
A New Assembly Site in Skuldaþingsey, NE-Iceland

2003

Creating a Past
Vígðalaug í LaugardalÁrbók Hins íslenska fornleifafélags
Fuel resource utilisation in landscapes of settlementJournal of Archaeological Science

2002

Hnignun, aðlögun eða framför?
An Extensive System of Medieval Earthworks in NE-IcelandArchaeologia Islandica
Enduring ImpactsArchaeologia Islandica

2001

Crossing the thresholdsCatena
The Conversion of the Icelanders

2000

The archaeology of landnám

1998

Patterns of Settlement in IcelandSaga-Book
FornleifaskráningArcahaeologia islandica

1997

Íslenska sóknaskipulagið og samband heimila á miðöldum
Hofstaðir revisitedNorwegian Archaeological Review

1995

Kirkja og kirkjugarður í Nesi við SeltjörnÁrbók Hins íslenska fornleifafélags

1994

Skjalagerð og sagnaritun

1992

Dómhringa sagaSaga: tímarit Sögufélags

Keywords for Specialisation:

Icelandic archaeology

Social archaeology

Landscape archaeology

North Atlantic archaeology

Settlement history

Medieval Studies

Church archaeology