Towards the identification of dyestuffs in Early Iron Age Scandinavian peat bog textiles

Berghe, Ina Vanden; Gleba, Margarita; Mannering, Ulla

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2009.04.019

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“…The same chromatographic conditions are applied for the identification of dyes in historical and archaeological textiles, using a LiChrosorb RP-18 column (4.0 Â 125 mm; 5 mm particle size), a methanol/water/ phosphoric acid linear gradient with an elution programme at a constant flow rate of 1.2 ml/min (Vanden Berghe et al, 2009). The results in Table 3 are expressed as peak areas of the detected components found after extraction of 1 mg of sample.…”

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“…Their study offers new insights in the interpretation of early Bronze Age textile finds from Eurasia. Moreover, recently a study from Northern Europe showed that fully decolorized Scandinavian Pre-Roman Iron Age (500 BCe0) textiles recovered from peat bogs still contained trace amounts of several organic dyestuffs among which were representatives from both main categories of mordant dyes, the flavonoids and anthraquinone dyes, as well as from the vat dye class (Vanden Berghe et al, 2009). Therefore, traces of organic dyes are not always apparent or visible due to secondary mineral and organic substances formed during burial (Nowik et al, 2005).…”

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Removal of natural organic dyes from wool–implications for ancient textile provenance studies

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Journal of Archaeological Science

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Removal of natural organic dyes from wool–implications for ancient textile provenance studies

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Berghe

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“…Samples from the second case study, the archaeological textiles from the pre-Roman Krogens Mølle site were chosen because previous studies of sample material from this site have shown that at least three other samples had been dyed in antiquity with luteolin and/or indigotin dyestuffs (Vanden Berghe et al, 2009). The samples studied herein were expected to be dyed as well and the pre-cleaning procedure therefore followed the one described above for wool organic-dyed textiles .…”

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“…Recent dye analyses [high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)] conducted on a wool thread samples belonging to one of the textiles of the Krogens Mølle find (Vanden Berghe et al, 2009) showed that they had been dyed in Antiquity with luteolin-containingdyestuff. Ancient textiles that can be shown to contain organic dyestuff, by e.g.…”

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Provenance of archaeological wool textiles: new case studies

Frei

2014

Open J Archaeometry

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In the last two decades, measurements of strontium (Sr) isotopes in archaeological bone tissues/skeletons have shown to be an effective technique for the characterisation of human and animal mobility in prehistory. More recently, this tracing system is also being applied to the investigation of archaeological textile's provenance. The importance of ancient textiles has been often underestimated, however research of archaeological textiles is currently experiencing an extremely increasing interest as the development of new methodologies, conducting experimental studies and lancing of new projects are providing an unreached amount of new information, knowledge and impressive data sets which together build the basis of novel thinking and interpretations. This manuscript aims at summarising two of the most recently developed methods that focus on the extraction of Sr from ancient non-dyed and organic-dyed wool threads from archaeological textiles in an attempt to identify if the raw materials are local or non-local to the sites. In particular, this study presents two case studies which rely on the use of these chemical protocols. The first example deals with a wool/fur sample from a modern Greenlandic Musk ox. The purpose of this study is to characterise wool from an exotic animal on the one side, and to try to establish a link between this wool and a geologically-seen ancient and very special terrain (Archaean basement rocks from the Kangerlussuaq area of Western Greenland) on which this musk ox was grazing. Our interest was focused on whether the bioavailable Sr fraction from this terrain impacted on the composition of the wool from the animal. The second case study deals with three thread samples from four ancient wool textile pieces recovered from one and the same pre-Roman Iron Age peat bog site at Krogens Mølle (Denmark). Some of these textiles have proven to be dyed with organic dyestuffs. This study therefore aimed at applying a novel pre-cleaning methodology developed for dyed (by organic dyestuffs) wool threads from ancient textiles. The outcome of these two particular studies revealed both the potential of these novel methodologies for retrieving the original Sr isotope signature of the raw material wool, and their limitations.

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“…On the other hand its unusual pattern of a sleeved tunic has parallels amongst Roman Iron Age textile finds from North Germany. During this time skin and textile garments became increasingly tailored using different construction techniques than in the previous period (Mannering and Gleba, forthcoming;Vanden Berghe et al, 2009).…”

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