Textile Databases and reports from the sites of Gásir and Gilsbakki, Iceland carried out between 2010 and 2023 at the National Museum of Iceland. Textiles: 13th-18th centuries.

• Main Author: Michele Smith
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2023
• Subjects: Archaeological textiles; Iceland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/urn:uuid:b7c9983e-6937-4b60-b865-0f457f275cd4

Analysis of textlie data from Icelandic sites, sourced from the National Museum of Iceland. This scientific investigation will employ a mixed methodology to document and analyze textile collections from rural and urban, North Atlantic and European contexts. Accelerated mass spectrometry (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 portable X-Ray Fluorescence (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. ** Note concerning the data tables : the terms "Trench" and "context" are common terms used by archaeologist to refer to the location of the find on the site, context refers to the overal grid of the site and context may refer to the layer in which the material was found. This is site specific and users will need to consult the site reports for more information.