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

第1段：该奖项支持对北大西洋贸易网络发展的考古研究，以及1000年来妇女在编织布料和参与这些贸易网络方面的作用。过去的研究告诉我们，中世纪的贸易只将北大西洋群岛与一个国家联系在一起。然而，这位科学家早期的研究表明，大约1000年前，维京人在伦敦和其他欧洲市场交易和出售布料。这意味着900年前，远在北大西洋诸岛的妇女为远方的市场织布。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，而商品市场是当今市场的鼻祖。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今天更复杂的贸易体系的出现，贸易如何影响妇女的劳动，以及人们如何决定生产什么和交易什么。第2段：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品。将使用AMS、染料和材料分析、锶同位素分析和X射线荧光来进一步确定北大西洋收集的特征，并将它们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xxrf数据，以便绘制地理上的同位素特征图，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，例如到北美、北欧和欧亚大陆。这个项目汇集了从跨洲贸易到对妇女个人手工的评估以及她们产品的元素和同位素签名等各种规模的分析，具有变革的潜力，可以为贸易、妇女和北方早期全球化经济的出现提供一个产生的跨学科视角。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.