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Forthcoming

Anderson, Wanni W. and Douglas D. Anderson. Iñupiat by the Sii: Historical Ethnography and the Arctic Challenges. University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks.

2023

Anderson, Douglas D. The Iñupiat of Northwest Alaska over the Past Millennium. Tuscaloosa:Borgo Publishing.

2022

Fenn, Thomas R., Laure Dussubieux, Heather Walder, and Douglas D. Anderson. Glass Beads and Evidence for Early “Pre-Contact” Trade in Northwestern Alaska. In Glass Bead Technology, Chronology, and Exchange: LA-ICP- MS Glass Compositions from the Field Museum’s Elemental Analysis Facility. Studies in Archaeological Sciences Series. Leuven University Press, Leuven, Belgium.

2021

Smith, Kevin P., Guðmundur Ólafsson, and Álbína Hulda Pálsdóttir. “Responses to catastrophic volcanism in Viking Age Iceland: Reconsidering Surtshellir Cave through Bayesian analysis of AMS and tephrochronological dates.” Journal of Archaeological Science 126C: 105316.

Smith, Kevin P., Guðmundur Ólafsson, Albína Hulda Pálsdóttir, and Magnús A. Sigurðsson. “Hallmundarhelir – Víggirtur hellir frá Sturlungaöld.” (Hallmundarhellir – a fortified cave from the Age of the Sturlungs.) Árbók hins Íslenska Fornleifafélags 2021. (In press)

2020

Hayeur Smith, Michèle. The Valkyries Loom, The Archaeology of Cloth Production and Female Power in the North Atlantic, University Press Florida.

2019

Anderson Douglas D. and  Wanni W. Anderson. Life at Swift Water Place: Northwest Alaska at the Threshold  of  European  Contact. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press. Chapters include:

Anderson, Douglas D.and Bruce J. Lutz. The Archaeology of Swift Water Place, pp. 1-68

Anderson, Douglas D  and Wanni W. Anderson.  Northwest Alaskan Iñupiaq Historiography, pp. 279–294

Ditchfield, Peter W., Thomas M. Urban, and Douglas D. Anderson. Stable Isotopic Dietary Analysis of Human and Faunal Remains from  Swift Water Place, p 223-238.

Anderson, Wanni W. Triangulating Oral History, Archaeology, and Geophysics at Swift Water Place, pp. 257-278

Anderson, Douglas D. and Wanni W. Anderson. Northwest Alaska Inupiaq Historiography, pp. 279-294

Hayeur Smith, Michèle. “Rumpelstiltskin’s Feat: Cloth and Hanseatic trade with Iceland.” In German Trade in the North Atlantic c 1400-1700: Interdisciplinary Studies, edited by Natascha Mehler and Mark Gardner and Endre Elvestad; AmS-Skrifter 27, 107-120. Arkeologisk Museum University of Stavanger. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31265/ams-skrifter.v0i27.262

Hayeur Smith, Michèle, Kevin P. Smith, and Karin M. Frei. “Tangled up in Blue: a case study of death, dress, and identity for an early Viking Age female settler from Ketilsstaðir, Iceland.” Medieval Archaeology 63(1): 95-127. DOI: 10.1080/00766097.2019.1589816  

2018

Dillon, James T., Samantha J. Lash, Jaiju Zhao, Kevin P. Smith, Peter van Dommelen, Andrew K. Scherer, and Yongsong Huang Smith. “Bacterial tetraether lipids in ancient bones record past climate conditions at the time of disposal.” Journal of Archaeological Science 96: 45-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2018.05.009

Hayeur Smith, Michèle. “Vaðmál and Cloth Currency in Viking Age and Medieval Iceland”. In Silver, Butter, Copper, Cloth: Currencies and Value in the Viking Age, edited by Jane Kershaw, Gareth Williams, Søren Sinbaek, and James Graham-Campbell, pp. 251-277. Oxford Univeristy Press, Oxford.

Hayeur Smith, Michèle, Gavin Lucas, and Quita Mould. “Men in Black, Performing Masculinity in 17th and 18th century Iceland.” Journal of Social Archaeology 19(2): 229-254. https://doi.org/10.1177/1469605318793798

Hayeur Smith, Michèle, Kevin P. Smith, and Gørill Nilsen.“Dorset, Norse, or Thule? – Technological transfers, marine mammal contamination, and AMS dating of spun yarn and textiles from the eastern Canadian Arctic.” Journal of Archaeological Science 96: 162-174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2018.06.005

2017

Sinding, Mikkel-Holger, Filipe Vieira, M. Hayeur Smith. “Unmatched DNA preservation prove arctic hare and sheep wool in Norse Greenlandic textiles from ‘The Farm Beneath the Sand.’” Journal of Archaeological Science–Reports 14: 603-608. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.06.043

Walser, Joseph W., III, Tina Jacob, Michele Hayeur Smith, Julia Tubman, Freyja H. Ómarsdóttir, Sandra Sif Einarsdóttir, Kevin P. Smith, Janet Montgomery, Steinunn J. Kritsjánsdóttir, Sigríður S. Ebenesersdóttir, and Karen Frei. “The woman in blue: using modern analytical methods to investigate a Viking Age burial from Iceland.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 159(S62): 327.  

2016

Hayeur Smith, Michèle. “Ethnicity and Cultural Influence in Dress from Scandinavia and the North Atlantic,” in Medieval Volume I, Berg Culture History of Fashion, edited by Sarah Grace Heller; Berg Publishing, Oxford.

Hayeur Smith, Michèle. “Textiles, wool, and hair.” In Reykholt: The Church Excavations, edited by Guðrún Sveinbjarnardóttir, pp. 139-150. Reykjavík and Reykholt, Iceland: National Museum of Iceland, Snorrastofa, and University of Iceland Press.

Hayeur Smith, Jette Arneborg, and Kevin P. Smith. “The "Burgundian" Hat from Herjolfsnes, Greenland: new discoveries, new dates.” Danish Journal of Archaeology. DOI:10.1080/21662282.2016.1151615

Smith, Kevin P. “The Colour of Belief: Objects of Jasper, Opal, Chalcedony, and Obsidian from the excavation of Reykholt's Churches.” In Reykholt: The Church Excavations, edited by Guðrún Sveinbjarnardóttir, pp. 230-242. Reykjavík and Reykholt, Iceland: National Museum of Iceland, Snorrastofa, and University of Iceland Press.

2015

Hayeur Smith, Michèle. “Weaving wealth: Cloth and trade in Viking Age and medieval Iceland.” In Textiles and the Medieval Economy: Production, Trade, and Consumption of Textiles, 8th–16th Centuries, edited by Angela Ling Huang, and Carsten Jahnke (Ancient Textile Series, Vol 16), pp. 23-40. Oxford, Oxbow Books.

Smith, Kevin P. “Aldursgreining Ketilsstaðakumlsins/Dating of the Ketilsstaðir grave.” In Bláklædda Konan – Ný Rannsókn á Fornu Kumli/Bundled-Up in Blue – The Re-Investigation of a Viking Grave (Rit Þjóðminjasafns Íslands 38), edited by Bryndís Sverrisdóttir, pp. 38-41. Reykjavík: Þjóðminjasafn Íslands/National Museum of Iceland. 

Smith, Kevin P. “First Survey, First Steps – the Beginning of the Karluk Archaeological Project.” In Kal’unek – From Karluk: Kodiak Alutiiq History and the Archaeology of the Karluk One Village Site, edited by Amy Steffian, Marnie Leist, Sven Haakanson, and Patrick Saltonstall, pp. 33-35. Kodiak and Fairbanks, AK: Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository and University of Alaska Press.

Walser, Joe W. III, Julia Tubman, Michèle Hayeur Smith, Kevin P. Smith, Sandra Síf Einarsdóttir (Bryndís Sverrisdóttir, editor). Bláklædda Konan – Ný Rannsókn á Fornu Kumli/Bundled Up in Blue – the Re-Investigation of a Viking Grave. Rit Þjóðminjasafns Íslands 38. Reykjavík: National Museum of Iceland/Þjóðminjasafn Íslands.

2014

Hayeur Smith, Michèle. “Dress, Cloth and the Farmer's Wife: Textiles from Ø172 Tatsipataa, Greenland with Comparative Data from Iceland.” Journal of the North Atlantic, Special Volume 6 (2014): 64–81. https://doi.org/10.3721/037.002.sp607

Hayeur Smith, Michèle. “Thorir's Bargain: Gender, vaðmal, and the law”. In The Archaeology of Legal Culture, edited by A. Reynolds and K.P. Smith. World Archaeology 45(5): 730-746. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2013.860272

Reynolds, Andrew and Kevin P. Smith. The Archaeology of Legal Culture, edited by Andrew Reynolds and Kevin P. Smith. World Archaeology 45(4). 

Smith, Kevin P. and Andrew Reynolds. “Introduction: The Archaeology of Legal Culture.” World Archaeology 45(4): 687-698. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2014.894179

2012

Hayeur Smith, Michèle. “‘Some in Rags and Some in Jags and Some in Silken Gowns’: Textiles from Iceland’s Early Modern Period." International Journal of Historic Archaeology 16(3): 509-528. DOI: 10.1007/s10761-012-0190-1.

2010

Hayeur Smith, Michèle. “Evidence about Dress of Indigenous People: Canadian Territory.” In The Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion: United States and Canada, Vol 3, edited by Phyllis G. Totora and Joanne B. Eicher, pp 18-26. Berg  Publishers, Oxford.

Ólafsson, Guðmundur, Kevin P. Smith, and Thomas H. McGovern. “Surtshellir: A Fortified Outlaw Cave in West Iceland.” In The Viking Age: Ireland and the West (Proceedings of the Fifteenth Viking Congress, Cork, 2005), edited by John Sheehan and Donnachadh O’Corráin, pp. 283-297. Four Courts Press, Dublin.

2006

Hayeur Smith, Michèle. “Hides, Clay, Beads and Bear Teeth: Iroquoian Fashions.” In The St Lawrence Iroquois, Corn People, edited by Roland Tremblay, pp 78-79. Musée d’Archéologie Pointe-à-Callières en collaboration les Éditions de l’Homme; Montréal, Canada.

Ólafsson, Guðmundur, Thomas H. McGovern, and Kevin P. Smith. “Outlaws of Surtshellir Cave: The Underground Economy of Viking Age Iceland.”  In Dynamics of Northern Societies (Publications of the National Museum of Denmark, Studies in Archaeology & History 10), edited by Jette Arneborg and Bjarne Grønnow, pp. 395-406.  Copenhagen: SILA – the Greenland Research Centre and the National Museum of Denmark.

2005

Hayeur Smith, Michèle. “Breaking the Mould, a re-evaluation of Viking Age Mould Making techniques for oval brooches.”  In De Re Metallica: Studies in Medieval Metals (AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art, Volume 4), edited by Robert Bork et al, pp. 81-99. Ashgate Press, Aldershot, Hampshire UK.

Smith, Kevin P. “Ore, Fire, Hammer, Sickle: iron Production in Viking Age and Early Medieval Iceland.” In De Re Metallica: Studies in Medieval Metals (AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art, Volume 4), edited by Robert Bork et al., pp. 183-206. Ashgate Press, Aldershot, UK.

2004

Hayeur Smith, Michèle. “Conceal to reveal: Life, death, and engendered adornment in Viking Age Iceland.” In Un traducteur du passé, mélanges en homage à Norman Clermont, edited by Claude Chapdelaine and Pierre Corbeil. Paléo-Québec 31: 235-242.

Hayeur Smith, Michèle. “Dressing the dead: Gender, identity, and adornment in Viking-Age Iceland.”  In Vinland Revisited, the Norse at the Turn of the First Millennium, Viking Millennium International Symposium, Sept.15-24, 2000, Newfoundland and Labrador, edited by S. Lewis-Simpson, pp. 227-240. Historic Sites Association of Newfoundland and Labrador, Inc., St. John's, Newfoundland.

Smith, Kevin P.. “Patterns in Time and the Tempo of Change:  A North Atlantic Perspective on the Evolution of Complex Societies.”  In Continuity or Change: The Role of Analytical Scale in European Archaeology, edited by James Matthieu and Rachel Scott, pp. 83-99.  British Archaeological Reports, International Series 1261. Archaeopress, Oxford.