Report of the Preliminary Inspection of Faunal Material at the Svalbard Museum, Longyearbyen, Svalbard

The archaeological potential of Svalbard in the circum-Arctic context continues to be overlooked and its zooarchaeology in particular is much undervalued. Svalbard is far away and expensive to travel to, so without a stepping-stone, no one is simply going to pick up a project on animal bones. We therefore went through the trouble of gathering the material presented here in order to provide such a stepping-stone and to inspire future research in Arctic zooarchaeology and historical ecology.