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

该奖项支持为博士生弗兰克·费利提供的论文改进助学金。研究人员费利将与派·汤姆·麦戈文密切合作，探索冰岛西部的古福斯卡拉遗址。这篇论文改善拨款将支持对该遗址进行两个季节的考古调查，以更好地了解它在伊克兰德早期全球经济中的作用，以及现代世界经济体系的起源。古福斯卡拉遗址很重要，因为它是少数几个大型中世纪渔场中为数不多的幸存下来的例子之一。这些站标志着冰岛进入了中世纪贸易日益增长的世界体系，这是我们现代世界经济体系的基础。调查将使用一种独特的方法来检查鱼的头盖骨，以确定冰岛在维京时期从自给自足渔业向商品渔业的转移。此外，海水和风都在迅速侵蚀着这个遗址，它是冰岛最大的中世纪渔场之一。该项目将有助于保存有丢失危险的信息，并将有助于保护这一重要遗址本身。

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.