Archaeological Investigation of the Eastern North Atlantic Trade and Globalizing Economic Systems

北大西洋东部贸易和全球化经济体系的考古调查

• 批准号: 1733914
• 负责人: Michele Smith
• 金额: $ 65.01万
• 依托单位: Brown University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-11-15 至 2022-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1733914&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Archaeological; Investigation; Eastern; North; Atlantic

Paragraph 1: This award supports archaeological research on the development of trade networks in the North Atlantic and women's role in weaving cloth and participating in these trade networks for 1000 years. Past studies tell us that trade in the middle ages connected the North Atlantic islands to only one country. However, this scientist's earlier research showed that nearly 1,000 years ago the Vikings traded and sold cloth in London and other European markets. This means that 900 years ago, women in places as far away as the islands of the North Atlantic made cloth for markets in distant places. The reason this is important is because it suggests that women's work was key to developing commodity markets that were the ancestors of today's market. By understanding how early international trade began in the North Atlantic and expanded as far as the Volga river, the research will contribute knowledge about the emergence of today's more complicated trade systems, how trade affects women's labor, and how people make decisions about what to make and what to trade.Paragraph 2: This scientific investigation will employ a mixed methodology to document and analyze textile collections from rural and urban, North Atlantic and European contexts. AMS, dye and material analyses, strontium isotope analyses, and X-Ray Fluorescence will be employed to further characterize North Atlantic collections and compare them to previously collected data assemblages. Strontium isotope analyses and pXRF data of archaeological samples and modern wool will be carried out in order to map isotopic signatures geographically and provide insight into the movements of textiles and the compounds used in their production across long distances, such as to North America, northern Europe and Eurasia. Bringing together analyses ranging in scale from trans-continental trade to assessments of individual women's handiwork and to their products' elemental and isotopic signatures, this project has transformative potential to provide an engendered, interdisciplinary perspective on trade, women, and the emergence of early globalized economies in the North.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

第1款：该奖项支持对北大西洋贸易网络的发展以及妇女在织布和参与这些贸易网络1000年中的作用进行考古研究。过去的研究告诉我们，中世纪的贸易只将北大西洋岛屿与一个国家联系起来。然而，这位科学家的早期研究表明，近1,000年前，维京人在伦敦和其他欧洲市场交易和销售布料。这意味着900年前，远在北大西洋岛屿上的妇女为遥远的地方的市场制造布料。这一点之所以重要，是因为它表明妇女的工作是发展商品市场的关键，而商品市场是今天市场的前身。通过了解早期的国际贸易是如何从北大西洋开始并扩展到伏尔加河的，这项研究将有助于了解当今更复杂的贸易体系的出现、贸易如何影响妇女的劳动力以及人们如何决定做什么和做什么贸易。这项科学调查将采用混合方法来记录和分析来自农村和城市，北大西洋和欧洲背景的纺织品收藏。 将采用AMS、染料和材料分析、锶同位素分析和X射线荧光分析进一步确定北大西洋收集的特征，并将其与以前收集的数据组合进行比较。 将对考古样品和现代羊毛进行锶同位素分析和pXRF数据，以绘制同位素地理特征图，并深入了解纺织品及其生产中使用的化合物的远距离移动，如北美、北方和欧亚大陆。 该项目汇集了从跨大陆贸易到评估个别妇女的手工艺品及其产品的元素和同位素特征等各种规模的分析，具有变革性的潜力，可以提供一个关于贸易、妇女、该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的学术价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

项目成果

‘Tangled up in Blue’: The Death, Dress and Identity of an Early Viking-Age Female Settler from Ketilsstaðir, Iceland

《蓝色纠缠》：来自冰岛凯蒂尔斯斯塔尔的早期维京时代女性定居者的死亡、着装和身份

• DOI: 10.1080/00766097.2019.1589816
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Medieval Archaeology
• 影响因子: 0.6
• 作者: SMITH, MICHÈLE HAYEUR;SMITH, KEVIN P;FREI, KARIN M
• 通讯作者: FREI, KARIN M

Rumpelstiltsken’s feat: cloth and German trade with Iceland

Rumpelstiltsken 的壮举：布料和德国与冰岛的贸易

• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Stavanger,
• 作者: Smith, Michele Hayeur