Lilja Björk Pálsdóttir
E-Mail: Lilja@instarch.is
Work phone: +354-551-1033
Mobile: +354-690-0676.
Home: +354-566-8076.
Family
Born on May 26th, 1971. Married to Vilmundur Palmason, Cand. Scient. in Electronic
Engineering. Children: Asrun Osp born 1994 and Arnthor Vidir born 1997.
Skills
I have worked on and supervised many excavations using the single context planning method.
My fieldwork experience is from different sites around Iceland, in many cases involving
complex turf structures.
The excavations vary in time from a settlement longhouse and heathen burials, through
medieval time to 19th and early 20th century buildings in Reykjavik.
In post-excavation work, my skills include producing stratigraphic matrices, plan drawings,
section drawings, artifact drawings (by hand and computer), site plans as well as overall
interpretation of the research data and writing reports.
I am very experienced in Autodesk AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Word, Microsoft
Excel and working with Total stations.
References and Recommendations
Available on request.
Work
2010
January-May:
MA studies in Archaeology at the University of Iceland.
June-July:
Excavations of heathen burials at Litlu-Nupar and Ingiridarstadir.
September-October:
Post-excavation work and report on Litlu-Nupar excavation.
2009
September-December:
MA-Studies in Archaeology at the University of Iceland.
August-September:
Excavation of a Viking Age buildings due to a new road construction, Dettifossvegur.
Site director.
July-August:
Excavations of heathen burials at Litlu-Nupar and Ingiridarstadir.
June:
4 weeks excavating a Viking Age longhouse at Belmont, in Shetland. Amenity Trust
and Roskilde Vikingskibsmuseum. Viking Unst Project.
January-May:
Reports on Preshus, Dettifossvegur and Gufuskalar. Post excavation work on Gasir.
MA-Studies at the University of Iceland.
2008
September-December:
1 week of excavation on Austurstraetis 19th C buildings in down town Reykjavik.
Machine watching brief at Presthus farm mound, Akranes.
Post excavation work for the Dettifossvegur and Gufuskalar amongst other things.
July-August:
Excavations of heathen burials at Litlu-Nupar and Ingiridarstadir.
May-June:
2 weeks of trenching before construction of a new road, Dettifossvegur. Supervisor.
1 week of sectioning at medieval fishing station at Gufuskalar. Project leader.
1 week excavating at Austurstraeti.
April- May:
Illustrations for publication of Hofstadir longhouse excavation.
January-March:
Post excavation work and report for Leirvogstunga farm mound.
2007
December:
Post excavation work for Leirvogstunga farm mound.
July-November: Site director of a rescue excavation of medieval-modern
Leirvogstunga farm mound.
May-June:
4 weeks of excavation at Skalholt and post excavation work for Gasir.
March-April:
2 weeks of excavation at Leirvogstunga farm mound and post excavation work for
Hafnarstraeti. Illustration work for the pending publication of excavation on early
medieval Hofstadir longhouse.
January-February:
Took part in the preservation process of Adalstraeti longhouse, Reykjavik. Post
excavation work on several projects.
2006
December:
Post excavation work for various projects. Artefact drawings for the pending
publication of the Skalholt excavations.
May-November:
19 weeks of excavations at Skalholt, Gasir, Leirvogstunga modern farm, Hafnarstraeti
19th C structures and seafront.
January-April:
Post excavation work for Gasir and Skalholt.
2005
May-December:
25 weeks of excavation at Skalholt, Gasir, Thingvellir assembly site, Adalstraeti post
medieval building in Reykjavik and Utskalar medieval farmmound. Also post
excavation work for Gasir.
2004
May-September:
15 weeks of excavation. Thereof 5 weeks at the post medieval bishops see at Skalholt
and 6 weeks at Gasir and 4 weeks of excavation at the FSI Fieldschool in
Myvatnssveit.
2003
July-August:
8 weeks of excavation on the medieval seasonal trading post at Gasir.
Social Activities
Chairman of the Icelandic Archaeologists Society (Felag islenskra fornleifafraedinga) since
December 2008.
Chairman of FSI Company Union (Eining) since 2007.
Education
Currently studying at the University of Iceland for an M.A degree in Archaeology. Expecting
to finish in spring of 2011.
University of Iceland. 2002-2005. B.A. in Archaeology, spring 2005. Final paper: Kuvikur:
An artefact study.
The College of Sund 1988-1991. Spring 1991.
Other:
2008, February: Course in use of Autodesk AutoCAD at Snertill, Kopavogur.
2005, November: Training in artefact illustration at Cambridge Archaeological Unit,
Cambridge, England.
2005, November: Course in use of Adobe Illustrator in archaeology at Headland
Archaeology Ltd. in Edinbourgh, Scotland.
2001, Fall: Course in drawing at the Mosfellsbaer School of Arts.
1986: A course in pencil drawings at The Icelandic College of Art and Crafts.
Publications
1) Birna Lárusdóttir, Gavin Lucas, Lilja Björk Pálsdóttir og Stefán Ólafsson: “Kúvíkur:
An abandoned trading site”. Archaeologia Islandica. S. 103-120. Fornleifastofnun
Íslands. Reykjavík. 2005.
2) Lilja Björk Pálsdóttir, Howell M. Roberts: Excavations at Gásir 2005. An interim
report. Fornleifastofnun Íslands. Reykjavík. 2006.
3) Lilja Björk Pálsdóttir, Howell M. Roberts: Excavations at Gásir 2006. An interim
report. Fornleifastofnun Íslands. Reykjavík. 2007.
4) Lilja Björk Pálsdóttir og Oddgeir Hansson: Fornleifarannsóknir á deiliskipulagssvæði
í Leirvogstungu, Mosfellsbæ. Framvinduskýrsla III. Fornleifastofnun Íslands.
Reykjavík. 2008.
5) Lilja Björk Pálsdóttir: Fornleifakönnun á framkvæmdasvæði fyrirhugaðs
Dettifossvegar: Tóveggjarstekkur, Hræreksstaðir og Maríugerði. Fornleifastofnun
Íslands. Reykjavík. 2008.
6) Lilja Björk Pálsdóttir: Fornleifakönnun á verbúðarleifum á Gufuskálum, Snæfellsnesi.
Bráðabirgðaskýrsla. Fornleifastofnun Íslands. Reykjavík. 2009.
7) Lilja Björk Pálsdóttir: Presthús, Akranesi. Framkvæmdavakt. Fornleifastofnun
Íslands. Reykjavík. 2009.