Doctoral Dissertation Research: Maritime Adaptations and Early North Atlantic Fisheries at Gufusk?lar Iceland

博士论文研究：冰岛古福斯克拉尔的海洋适应和早期北大西洋渔业

• 批准号: 1203823
• 负责人: Thomas McGovern
• 金额: $ 5.04万
• 依托单位: CUNY Graduate School University Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-04-15 至 2015-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1203823&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Maritime; Adaptations

This award supports a Dissertation Improvement Grant for doctoral student Frank Feeley. Researcher Feeley will be working closely with PI Tom McGovern to explore the site of Gufuskálar in western Iceland. This dissertation improvement grant will support two seasons of archaeological investigation of the site in order to better understand its role in the early "global" economy of Icleand, as well as the origins of the modern world economic system. The site of Gufuskálar is important as it's one of the few surviving examples of the handful of large medieval fishing stations. These stations marked Iceland's introduction into the growing world system of medieval trade, which is the basis for our modern world economic system. The investigation will use a unique methodology of examinining fish crania to determine the movement from subsistence to commodity fisheries in Iceland during the Viking period. In addition, both sea and wind are quickly eroding the site, which is one of the largest medieval fishing stations in Iceland. This project will contribute to the preservation of information in danger of being lost and will contribute to the preservation of this important site itself.

该奖项支持博士生弗兰克·费利的论文改进补助金。 研究员Feeley将与PI Tom McGovern密切合作，探索冰岛西部的Gufuskálar遗址。 该论文改进补助金将支持对该遗址进行两个季节的考古调查，以更好地了解其在早期“全球”经济中的作用，以及现代世界经济体系的起源。 Gufuskálar的遗址很重要，因为它是少数几个大型中世纪捕鱼站的幸存例子之一。 这些车站标志着冰岛进入了不断发展的中世纪世界贸易体系，这是我们现代世界经济体系的基础。这项调查将使用一种独特的鱼类头盖骨检查方法，以确定维京海盗时期冰岛从自给性渔业向商品性渔业的转变。 此外，海水和风都在迅速侵蚀着这个冰岛最大的中世纪捕鱼站之一。 这一项目将有助于保存面临丢失危险的信息，并将有助于保护这一重要遗址本身。