Detecting the medieval cod trade: a new method and first results

被引：87

作者：

Barrett, James ^{[1
,2
]}

Johnstone, Cluny ^{[2
]}

Harland, Jennifer ^{[1
,2
]}

Van Neer, Wim ^{[3
]}

Ervynck, Anton ^{[4
]}

Makowiecki, Daniel ^{[5
]}

Heinrich, Dirk ^{[6
]}

Hufthammer, Anne Karin ^{[7
]}

Enghoff, Inge Bodker ^{[8
]}

Amundsen, Colin ^{[9
]}

Christiansen, Jorgen Schou ^{[10
]}

Jones, Andrew K. G. ^{[11
,12
]}

Locker, Alison

Hamilton-Dyer, Sheila

Jonsson, Leif ^{[13
]}

Lougas, Lembi ^{[14
]}

Roberts, Callum ^{[15
]}

Richards, Michael ^{[16
,17
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Cambridge, McDonald Inst Archaeol Res, Cambridge CB2 3ER, England

[2] Univ York, Dept Archaeol, York YO1 7EP, N Yorkshire, England

[3] Royal Belgian Inst Nat Sci, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium

[4] Flemish Heritage Inst, Vlaams Inst Voor Het Onroerend Erfgoed, B-1210 Brussels, Belgium

[5] Nicholas Copernicus Univ, Inst Archaeol, PL-87100 Torun, Poland

[6] Univ Kiel, Zool Inst Haustierkunde, D-24118 Kiel, Germany

[7] Univ Bergen, Bergen Museum, N-5020 Bergen, Norway

[8] Univ Copenhagen, Zool Museum, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark

[9] CUNY, PhD Program, Grad Ctr, New York, NY 10016 USA

[10] Univ Tromso, Norwegian Coll Fishery Sci, N-9037 Tromso, Norway

[11] Univ Bradford, Dept Archaeol Sci, Bradford BD7 1DP, W Yorkshire, England

[12] York Archaeol Trust, York YO1 7BX, N Yorkshire, England

[13] Gothenburg Museum Nat Hist, SE-40235 Gothenburg, Sweden

[14] Tallinn Univ, Hist Inst, EE-10130 Tallinn, Estonia

[15] Univ York, Dept Environm, York YO10 5DD, N Yorkshire, England

[16] Univ Durham, Dept Archaeol, Durham DH1 3LE, England

[17] Max Planck Evolutionary Anthropol, Dept Human Evolut, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany

来源：

JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE | 2008年 / 35卷 / 04期

关键词：

fish trade; cod; middle ages; Europe; stable isotopes; zooarchaeology; provenance;

D O I：

10.1016/j.jas.2007.06.004

中图分类号：

Q98 [人类学];

学科分类号：

030303 ;

摘要：

This paper explores the potential of stable isotope analysis to identify the approximate region of catch of cod by analysing bones from medieval settlements in northern and western Europe. It measures the delta C-13 and delta N-15 values of cod bone collagen from medieval control samples collected from sites around Arctic Norway, the North Sea, the Kattegat and the Baltic Sea. These data were considered likely to differ by region due to, for example, variation in the length of the food chain, water temperature and salinity. We find that geographical structuring is indeed evident, making it possible to identify bones from cod caught in distant waters. These results provide a new methodology for studying the growth of long-range trade in dried cod and the related expansion of fishing effort-important aspects of the development of commercialisation in medieval Europe. As a first test of the method, we analyse three collections of cod bones tentatively interpreted as imported dried fish based on a priori zooarchaeological criteria. The results tentatively suggest that cod were being transported or traded over very long distances since the end of the first millennium AD. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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页码：850 / 861

页数：12

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