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Norse Management of Wooden Resources across the North Atlantic: Highlights from the Norse Greenlandic Settlements
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Trees and timber are of great importance in many cultures across the globe, whether used as a construction material, as a fuel source, or for making tools and items of everyday life as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
Trees and timber are of great importance in many cultures across the globe, whether used as a construction material, as a fuel source, or for making tools and items of everyday life. This was also ...read more
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Provenancing wood used in the Norse Greenlandic settlements: A biogeochemical study using hydrogen, oxygen, and strontium isotopes
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used biogeochemical analysis of stable hydrogen (δ2H), stable oxygen and radiogenic strontium (87Sr/86Sr) isotopes in soil, water, and modern plant samples from various sites in Greenland and Canada to characterize expected local isotopic baselines.
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Life beyond life: Repair, reuse, and recycle—the many lives of wooden objects and the mutability of trees
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Wood procurement in Norse Greenland (11th to 15th c. AD)
TL;DR: In this article, the taxa of archaeological wood assemblages from five Norse sites in Greenland, the episcopal manor Garðar/Igaliku (O47), Tatsip Ataa Killeq (O172), Tasilikulooq(O171), Narsaq (O17a) and Garden under Sandet (GUS) were analyzed to determine whether the wood was native, import or driftwood.
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In praise of archives (and an open mind)
TL;DR: A recent study dating Viking presence in America to a precise year was only possible thanks to long-term conservation of archaeological finds as mentioned in this paper , which highlighted the importance of archiving materials and asking the right questions in research on the entanglements of climate and history.
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How Vikings crossed the North Atlantic? The reinterpretation of ‘sun compasses’ — Narsarsuaq, Wolin, Truso
TL;DR: The discovery of the Narsarsuaq disc (Uunartoq, Greenland) in 1948 sparked a long discussion on the identification of wooden discs as solar compasses used by the Vikings during sea voyages across t...
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Strontium isotopes reveal distant sources of architectural timber in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico.
TL;DR: The use of trees from both the Chuska and San Mateo mountains, but not from the San Pedro Mountains, as early as A.D. 974 suggests that selection of timber sources was driven more by regional socioeconomic ties than by a simple model of resource depletion with distance and time.
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Was it for walrus? Viking Age settlement and medieval walrus ivory trade in Iceland and Greenland
Karin Margarita Frei,Ashley N. Coutu,Konrad Smiarowski,Ramona Harrison,Christian Koch Madsen,Jette Arneborg,Robert Frei,Gardar Guðmundsson,Søren M. Sindbæk,James Woollett,Steven Hartman,Megan Hicks,Thomas H. McGovern +12 more
TL;DR: In this paper, lead isotopic analysis of archaeological walrus ivory and bone from Greenland and Iceland offers a tool for identifying possible source regions of walrus Ivory during the early Middle Ages, allowing to assess the development and relative importance of hunting grounds from the point of view of exported products.
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87Sr/86Sr sourcing of ponderosa pine used in Anasazi great house construction at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Amanda C. Reynolds,Julio L. Betancourt,Jay Quade,P. Jonathan Patchett,Jeffrey S. Dean,J. R. Stein +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extend 87 Sr/ 86 Sr analysis to ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa ) prevalent in the architectural timber at three of the Chacoan great houses (Pueblo Bonito, Chetro Ketl, Pueblo del Arroyo).
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Deciphering the impact of change on the driftwood cycle: contribution to the study of human use of wood in the Arctic
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of existing literature supplemented by new data from Alaska, details factors underlying the "dynamic of driftwood production" in terms of drift wood abundance and quality, and indigenous people's use of the resource.
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Holocene Driftwood Incursion to Southwestern Victoria Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago, and Its Significance to Paleoceanography and Archaeology
Arthur S. Dyke,James M. Savelle +1 more
TL;DR: Holocene driftwood is found on postglacial raised beaches of Wollaston Peninsula, Victoria Island as mentioned in this paper, and the highest driftwood appears on the 12- to 13-m beach, which formed about 4000 yr B.P.