Brýni og mölunaráhöld úr byggðum norrænna manna á Grænlandi

Dr. Sólveig Guðmundsdóttir Beck flytur erindi í fyrirlestraröðinni Nýjar rannsóknir í fornleifafræði sem Félag fornleifafræðinga og námsbraut í fornleifafræði við Háskóla Íslands standa að. Fyrirlesturinn nefnist „Medieval Norse Whetstones and Grinding Tools at Igaliku and Tatsip Ataa Killeq in the Eastern Settlement, SW-Greenland: Productions and Material Origins.“ 

Fyrirlesturinn fer fram í stofu 023 í Veröld - húsi Vigdísar miðvikudaginn 22. mars kl. 12-13 og er öllum opinn. Einnig verður hægt að fylgjast með fyrirlestrinum í streymi. 

Um fyrirlesturinn

The main aim of this lecture is to introduce the results of an analysis of whetstones and other possible grinding tools and related raw materials that were unearthed in two midden excavations at Tatsip Ataa Killeq and Igaliku in the Eastern Settlement in Greenland. The formations are dated to the 11th-15th centuries and Eriksfjord sandstone and mica schist make up roughly about 1/5th in both finds assemblages (~16-22%). The local Eriksfjord sandstone formations are the main materials used however, or about 97%, with mica schist making up the rest. The schist is a mixture of Norwegian and possibly local sources of unknown origin. The Norwegian schist likely comes from Eidsborg in Telemark and the Mostadmarka or Soknedal areas in Trøndelag. In the Igaliku assemblage there were no mica schist whetstones unearthed, only a couple of raw material fragments of unclear origin. The Igaliku stone assemblage is fragmentary and shows few clear material trends or changes through time, while in the Tatsip Ataa assemblage material distributions and trends are much clearer and more consistent, seemingly showing very little change in the usage of varied local sandstone materials through the entire period. However, most of the clear cut mica schist whetstones found at Tatsip Ataa are only found in the oldest phases. The tools have commonly been heavily used, they are often fragmented and/or split, and often only fragments with one or two worked, polished or striated surfaces have been preserved. These two Greenlandic assemblages are the exact opposite to Icelandic assemblages, where the majority of whetstone material is imported Norwegian mica schist, with occasional accompaniments of pale sandstones and/or local igneous rocks like basalt and dolerite.