Ivory from early Anglo-Saxon burials in Lincolnshire - A biomolecular study
Ivory from early Anglo-Saxon burials in Lincolnshire - A biomolecular study
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林肯郡早期盎格鲁撒克逊墓葬中的象牙——一项生物分子研究
DOI：
10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.103943
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2023
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0.9
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Hemer K
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作者：
Hemer K
象牙袋环在英格兰南部、中部和东部的70多个公墓中被发现，最早可以追溯到公元5世纪末到7世纪。这些戒指最常出现在装饰精美的女性坟墓中，可以作为挂在腰部的袋子的框架。自19世纪以来，关于这种象牙来源的争论一直很盛行，海象和猛犸象的象牙被认为是象牙的可能竞争者。最近在林肯郡Scremby的一个早期盎格鲁-撒克逊墓地进行的挖掘发现了一些精心制作的女性墓葬，其中包含这样的袋环。这项研究使用放射性碳测年，旨在确定这些戒指是否与墓葬同时代，然后通过动物考古学和质谱仪(ZOOMS)来识别象牙的物种。锶分析也被用来确定象牙形成时大象的居住地。通过多种方法，我们已经确定，用于Scremby袋环的象牙来自公元5世纪和6世纪期间生活在非洲一片年轻火山岩地区的大象。这一初步证据使我们能够考虑当时促成象牙从非洲向不列颠群岛分配的网络和社会经济因素。
Ivory bag rings have been found in more than 70 cemeteries across southern, central, and eastern England dating to between the late-5th and 7th centuries AD. These rings are most frequently found in richly furnished female graves, and would have served as the framework for bags that hung at the waist. Debate over the source of this ivory has prevailed since the 19th century, with walrus and mammoth ivory considered as possible contenders to elephantid ivory. Recent excavations at an early Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Scremby, Lincolnshire revealed a number of elaborate female burials containing such bag rings. Using radiocarbon dating this study aimed to establish whether the rings were contemporary with the burials before seeking to identify the species of ivory through Zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry (ZooMS). Strontium analysis was also used to identify the place of residence of the elephantids at the time of tusk formation. Through a multi-methodological approach, we have established that the ivory used for the Scremby bag rings came from elephants living in an area of young volcanic rocks in Africa at some point during the 5th and 6th centuries AD. This preliminary evidence allows us to consider the networks and socio-economic factors that facilitated the distribution of ivory from Africa to the British Isles at this time.