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CURRICULUM VITAE
Adolf Fridriksson, Date of Birth: 30 Oct 1963, Address: Institute of Archaeology, Bárugata 3,
101 Reykjavík
adolf@instarch.is, http://paris-sorbonne.academia.edu/Departments/Etudes_germaniques
Education:
Phd, (La place du mort. Les tombes vikings dans le paysage culturel islandais, (thèse de
doctorat, non publié), Paris, Université Paris IV - Sorbonne, 2010-2013.
Histoire et philologie de la Scandinavie ancienne et médiévale, École pratique des Hautes
Études, Paris, 1993-1997.
M.Phil., Institute of Archaeology, UCL, London. Archaeology, 1988-1991.
BA (Hons.), Institute of Archaeology, London. Archaeology. 1985-1988.
Landscapes and Documents (Univ. of Oxford), Air-Photo Interpretation in Archaeology
(Univ. of Oxford), History of Ideas (Wellcome Inst., London), History and Philosophy of
Science (University College, London), 1990-1996.
Work Experience:
Current post: Director, Institute of Archaeology, Iceland (from 1995). Visiting Scholar,
Cambridge, 2009-2011, President K. Eldjárn Research Fellowship 1999-2002, Digital
Mapping, Geophysics Dept., Science School, University of Iceland (1991-92).
Fieldwork Experience: Iceland, England, France, Norway, Italy, Barbuda.
Administration: Project Management Committees: ArcLand - Archaeolandscapes Europe EU
Culture 2007–2015; Protection of pre-industrial Landscapes, Eur. Sc. Foundation Project
(2002-2007); ARENA (Archaeological Database, 1999-2001); Board member: Nordic World
Heritage Office, Oslo (1999-2001); TL-Laboratory, Aarhus, Denmark (1996-1999); Sociète
des études nordiques, Paris(1996 -1998); Institute of Archaeology, Iceland (1995- ).
Teaching, supervision, jury: Universities of Iceland, Cambridge, Lille, Glasgow, Umeå, Laval
and New York (CUNY).
Select Bibliography:
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Books
Adolf Fridriksson, Sagas and popular Antiquarianism in Icelandic Archaeology, Aldershot,
Avebury, 1994.
-- (Ed.) Kristján Eldjárn, Kuml og haugfé, Reykjavík, 2000, Mál og menning.
-- (Ed.) (with Jón K. Helgason, Þorleifur Hauksson), Íslensk menning (Icelandic Culture
Series) 1999, 2001, 2004, 2007... Reykjavík: Hið íslenska bókmenntafélag.
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Book chapters
Adolf Friðriksson, “Eftirmáli”, in Kristján Eldjárn, Vínlandsdagbókin, Reykjavík, Forlagið,
2012, pp. 125-159.
--, Flugan og fornleifafundurinn. Litlu-Núpar í Aðaldal. Birna Lárusdóttir (ed.). Húsavík,
2012, pp. 11-21.
--, Haugbrot. Litlu-Núpar í Aðaldal. Birna Lárusdóttir (ed.), Húsavík, 2012, pp. 58-60.
--, “Þingminjar”, in Birna Lárusdóttir (Ed.), Mannvist, Reykjavík, Opna, 2011, pp. 344-357.
--, “Steinnökkvinn”, in Orri Vésteinsson et al (eds.), Upp á yfirborðið, Reykjavík,
Fornleifastofnun Íslands, 2010, pp. 26-29.
--, “Haugar og heiðni: minjar un íslenskt járnaldarsamfélag”, in Árni Björnsson & Hrefna
Róbertsdóttir (eds.), Hlutavelta tímans. Menningararfur á Þjóðminjasafni, Reykjavík,
Þjóðminjasafn Íslands, 2004, pp. [56]-63.
--, “Viking Burial Practices in Iceland”, In Kuml og haugfé, Reykjavík, Mál og menning,
2000, pp. 549-610.
-- & Gavin Lucas, “Fornleifastofnun Íslands og hlutverk fornleifafræðinnar í samtímanum”,
in Upp á yfirborðið, Reykjavík, Fornleifastofnun Íslands, 2010, pp. 11-21.
-- & Gavin Lucas, “Introduction”, in Gavin Lucas (ed.), Hofstaðir. Excavations of a Viking
Age Feasting Hall in North-Eastern Iceland, Reykjavík, Fornleifastofnun Íslands, Institute of
Archaeology Monograph Series 1, 2009, pp. 1-25.
-- & Orri Vésteinsson, “Creating a Past. A Historiography of the Settlement of Iceland”, in
James H. Barrett (ed.), Contact, Continuity and Collapse: The Norse Colonization of the
North Atlantic, Brepols Publishers, (Studies in the Early Middle Ages 5, 2003, pp. 139-161.
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Academic articles
Adolf Friðriksson, Kumlin í Saltvík. Árbók hins íslenska fornleifafélags 2013.
--, “Haugarnir í Hringsdal”, Árbók Barðastrandarsýslu, XXIII, 2012, pp. 60-69.
--, “Social and symbolic landscapes in late Iron Age Iceland”, Archaeologia Islandica, 7,
2009, pp. 9-21.
--, “The Topography of Iron-age Burials in Iceland”, in Garðar Guðmundsson (ed.), Current
issues in Nordic Archaeology.Proceedings of the 21st Conference of Nordic Archaeologists
2001, Akureyri, Iceland, Reykjavík, Soc. of Icelandic Archaeologists, 2004, pp. 15-16.
-- with McGovern T H et al, “Landscapes of settlement in northern Iceland: Historical
Ecology of human impact and climate fluctuation on the millennial scale”, American
Anthropologist, 109, 1, 2007, pp. 27-51.
-- & Orri Vésteinsson, “Landscapes of burial: Contrasting the Pagan and Christian Paradigms
of Burial in Viking Age and Medieval Iceland”, Archaeologia islandica, 9, 2011, pp. 50-64.
-- & Orri Vésteinsson, “ Hofstaðir Revisited”, Norwegian Archaeological Review, XXX, 2,
1997, pp. 103-112.
--, Orri Vésteinsson et al., “Recent investigations at Hofstaðir, northern Iceland”, in R. A.
and G. Coles Housley, Eds. (ed.), Atlantic Connections and Adaptations: Economies,
environments and subsistence in lands bordering the North Atlantic. Symposia of the
Association for Environmental Archaeology 21, Oxford, Oxbow Books, 2004, pp. 191-202.