Abstract
VERY SMALL DWELLING SITES dating to the Settlement Period (9th and 10th centuries ad) were recently investigated in the region of Hegranes in Skagafjörður, northern Iceland. The sites were depopulated by the early 12th century, and they differ from farmsteads in many respects, including spatiotemporal extent, landscape context, and midden contents. The establishment of small dwelling sites suggests that the Icelandic settlement was characterised by forms of landscape management and social organisation that were specifically adapted to the colonisation of a new land, bearing little resemblance to what came after. Habitation at the sites ended during a period of economic transformation, after which they became outfields and pasture, part of the broader landscape of other farms. Archaeological study of small, non-farm dwelling sites is beginning to shed light on the economic and social role played by people whose lives and voices are not a part of the historical record.
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