Pigs in the Faroe Islands: An Ancient Facet of the Islands' Paleoeconomy

Símun V. Arge; Mike J. Church; Seth D. Brewington

doi:10.3721/037.002.0104

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Símun V. Arge,^1,* Mike J. Church,² Seth D. Brewington³

¹1Føroya Forminnissavn, Hoyvík, Postbox 1155, FO-110 Tórshavn, Føroyar.
²2Department of Archaeology, Durham Univer sity, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK.
³3CUNY Northern Science and Education Center, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, Brooklyn Co

^*Corresponding author - svarge@natmus.fo.

Abstract

This paper discusses the evidence for pig husbandry in the Faroes during the Norse and early Medieval periods. The evidence from zooarchaeology, biomolecular archaeology, and place-name evidence is reviewed, proposing that the keeping of pigs was an important part of the early paleoeconomy of the islands.

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Símun V. Arge, Mike J. Church, and Seth D. Brewington "Pigs in the Faroe Islands: An Ancient Facet of the Islands' Paleoeconomy," Journal of the North Atlantic 2(1), 19-32, (1 January 2009). https://doi.org/10.3721/037.002.0104

Published: 1 January 2009

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