Textile Database from the sites of Möðruvellir, Bessastaðir and Reykholt, Iceland stored at the National Museum of Iceland. Date of the material: Viking Age - 10th century - 18th century

• Main Author: Michele Smith
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2023
• Subjects: Textiles; Iceland; Archaeological; Möðruvellir; Reykholt; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A2RX93F8N

Datasets, for Icelandic sites, Möðruvellir (a monastic site in northern Iceland) Bessastaðir (the seat of the Icelandic parlement and Danish colonial authorities) and Reykholt (an elite, and church parish site in Western Iceland). This scientific investigation will employ a mixed methodology to document and analyze textile collections from rural and urban, North Atlantic and European contexts. Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS), dye and material analyses, strontium isotope analyses, and X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF) will be employed to further characterize North Atlantic collections and compare them to previously collected data assemblages. Strontium isotope analyses and portable X-ray fluorescence 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 (Archaeological Investigations of the Eastern North Atlantic Trade and Globalizing Economic Systems; Award no. 1733914) has transformative potential to provide an engendered, interdisciplinary perspective on trade, women, and the emergence of early globalized economies in the North.