Supplementary material from "Walruses on the Dnieper: new evidence for the intercontinental trade of greenlandic ivory in the Middle Ages"
Mediaeval walrus hunting in Iceland and Greenland—driven by Western European demand for ivory and walrus hide ropes—has been identified as an important pre-modern example of ecological globalization. By contrast, the main origin of walrus ivory destined for eastern European markets, and then onward...
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ftdatacite:10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5901183.v1 2023-05-15T15:07:37+02:00 Supplementary material from "Walruses on the Dnieper: new evidence for the intercontinental trade of greenlandic ivory in the Middle Ages" Barrett, James H. Khamaiko, Natalia Ferrari, Giada Cuevas, Angélica Kneale, Catherine Hufthammer, Anne Karin Pálsdóttir, Albína Hulda Star, Bastiaan 2022 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5901183.v1 https://rs.figshare.com/collections/Supplementary_material_from_Walruses_on_the_Dnieper_new_evidence_for_the_intercontinental_trade_of_greenlandic_ivory_in_the_Middle_Ages_/5901183/1 unknown The Royal Society https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.2773 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5901183 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 CC-BY Ecology FOS Biological sciences 60408 Genomics article Collection 2022 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5901183.v1 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.2773 https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5901183 2022-04-01T15:57:11Z Mediaeval walrus hunting in Iceland and Greenland—driven by Western European demand for ivory and walrus hide ropes—has been identified as an important pre-modern example of ecological globalization. By contrast, the main origin of walrus ivory destined for eastern European markets, and then onward trade to Asia, is assumed to have been Arctic Russia. Here, we investigate the geographical origin of nine twelfth-century CE walrus specimens discovered in Kyiv, Ukraine—combining archaeological typology (based on chaîne opératoire assessment), ancient DNA (aDNA) and stable isotope analysis. We show that five of seven specimens tested using aDNA can be genetically assigned to a Western Greenland origin. Moreover, six of the Kyiv rostra had been sculpted in a way typical of Greenlandic imports to Western Europe, and seven are tentatively consistent with a Greenland origin based on stable isotope analysis. Our results suggest that demand for the products of Norse Greenland's walrus hunt stretched not only to Western Europe but included Ukraine and, by implication given linked trade routes, also Russia, Byzantium and Asia. These observations illuminate the surprising scale of mediaeval ecological globalization and help explain the pressure this process exerted on distant wildlife populations and those who harvested them. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Greenland greenlandic Iceland walrus* DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Arctic Greenland |
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Mediaeval walrus hunting in Iceland and Greenland—driven by Western European demand for ivory and walrus hide ropes—has been identified as an important pre-modern example of ecological globalization. By contrast, the main origin of walrus ivory destined for eastern European markets, and then onward trade to Asia, is assumed to have been Arctic Russia. Here, we investigate the geographical origin of nine twelfth-century CE walrus specimens discovered in Kyiv, Ukraine—combining archaeological typology (based on chaîne opératoire assessment), ancient DNA (aDNA) and stable isotope analysis. We show that five of seven specimens tested using aDNA can be genetically assigned to a Western Greenland origin. Moreover, six of the Kyiv rostra had been sculpted in a way typical of Greenlandic imports to Western Europe, and seven are tentatively consistent with a Greenland origin based on stable isotope analysis. Our results suggest that demand for the products of Norse Greenland's walrus hunt stretched not only to Western Europe but included Ukraine and, by implication given linked trade routes, also Russia, Byzantium and Asia. These observations illuminate the surprising scale of mediaeval ecological globalization and help explain the pressure this process exerted on distant wildlife populations and those who harvested them. |
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Supplementary material from "Walruses on the Dnieper: new evidence for the intercontinental trade of greenlandic ivory in the Middle Ages" |
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Supplementary material from "Walruses on the Dnieper: new evidence for the intercontinental trade of greenlandic ivory in the Middle Ages" |
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