Strontium isotopes on wool samples from the urban medieval site of Gullskoen, Bergen, Norway, Medieval 13th -15th century

The site of Gullskoen is one of the main excavated areas in the medieval town of Bryggen. Data was collected from this site to conduct analysis of strontium isotopes, along with some modern Norwegian wool samples. This material was sampled by the staff of the Bryggen museum as this was during the COVID-19 pandemic and samples were sent to Isobar laboratories in Florida (who were not very familiar with the extraction of sr from wool). This project along with material from Trondheim, Borgund and other sites in the vicinity are part of on going research on the role of trade and nature of trade in Western Norway in the medieval period. For this reason the data is not available at the present time, but will be made available as soon as the project is complete. This material was part of 1733914 “Archaeological Investigations of the Eastern North Atlantic Trade and Globalizing Economic Systems”. The Project: Archaeological Investigations of the Eastern North Atlantic Trade and Globalizing Economic Systems (Award no. 1733914) sought to provide new data on patterns of household-scale production and consumption in the eastern North Atlantic islands and assess the ways that textiles from the rural North Atlantic islands were used, consumed, and traded within the emerging medieval and post-medieval urban harbors of Bergen, Trondheim, and Borgund in Norway. Over the course of 1000 years, trade linking the Norse North Atlantic colonies waxed and waned. Early medieval networks linked the North Atlantic islands primarily with Norway for supplies of key resources, yet archaeological data suggest that by the mid-11th century Icelandic women wove in response to demands for products sold in London and beyond. By the 13th century, these networks expanded, with both the North Atlantic and North Sea integrated into the Hanseatic League's networks linking northern Europe and beyond. From the 17th century onwards, the North Atlantic was integrated into increasingly industrial mercantile networks, controlled through monopolistic practices by the Danish state, linking the cities of northwestern Europe with colonies and consumers across the world. This project was: (1) to assess the regional characteristics and trajectories of eastern North Atlantic women's textile production, (2) connect these collections and patterns with textile assemblages from emerging and central trading harbors in Scandinavia and beyond, and (3) link these results with previous NSF-funded work.

Gullskoen遗址（Gullskoen）是中世纪城镇布吕根（Bryggen）的主要发掘区域之一。研究人员从该遗址采集数据以开展锶同位素分析研究，同时还采集了若干现代挪威羊毛样本。由于当时正值新冠疫情（COVID-19 pandemic），样本由布吕根博物馆工作人员完成采集，随后被送往佛罗里达州的伊索巴尔实验室（Isobar laboratories）——该实验室对羊毛中锶（Sr）的提取工作并不十分熟悉。本项目以及来自特隆赫姆（Trondheim）、博尔贡（Borgund）及周边其他遗址的相关材料，均属于挪威西部中世纪贸易角色与贸易本质的持续研究项目的一部分。因此，本数据集目前暂未对外开放，待项目结题后将尽快公开。本材料隶属于编号为1733914的「东北大西洋贸易与全球化经济体系考古调查（Archaeological Investigations of the Eastern North Atlantic Trade and Globalizing Economic Systems）」项目。

项目「东北大西洋贸易与全球化经济体系考古调查（Archaeological Investigations of the Eastern North Atlantic Trade and Globalizing Economic Systems）」（资助编号：1733914）旨在获取东北大西洋岛屿家庭规模生产与消费模式的全新数据，并评估北大西洋乡村岛屿所产纺织品在挪威卑尔根、特隆赫姆与博尔贡这些新兴中世纪及后中世纪城市港口中的使用、消费与贸易方式。

在长达千年的历史进程中，连接诺斯殖民群体的北大西洋贸易网络历经盛衰起伏。中世纪早期，北大西洋岛屿主要与挪威开展贸易以获取关键资源补给；但考古数据显示，至11世纪中期，冰岛女性已开始针对伦敦及更远地区的市场需求进行纺织品织造。到13世纪，此类贸易网络进一步扩张，北大西洋与北海均被纳入汉萨同盟（Hanseatic League）的贸易网络，该网络连接了北欧乃至更广阔的区域。自17世纪起，北大西洋被纳入日益工业化的商业贸易网络，由丹麦国家通过垄断经营模式掌控，将西北欧城市与全球各地的殖民地及消费者连接起来。

本项目的核心目标包括：（1）评估东北大西洋女性纺织品生产的区域特征与发展轨迹；（2）将这些藏品与生产模式与斯堪的纳维亚及其他地区新兴及核心贸易港口的纺织品遗存组合进行关联研究；（3）将本项目的研究结果与此前由美国国家科学基金会（National Science Foundation, NSF）资助的相关研究工作进行衔接。