Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
The Power of Viking Women. (cover story) |
| Authors: |
Russo, Francine (AUTHOR) |
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Scientific American. Oct2022, Vol. 327 Issue 4, p28-35. 8p. 3 Color Photographs, 3 Diagrams, 1 Graph. |
| Subject Terms: |
ACCELERATOR mass spectrometry, TEXTILE chemistry, VIKINGS, WOOL textiles, LITTLE Ice Age |
| Abstract: |
Regular modern cloth, Hayeur Smith explains, could vary from 75 to 300 warp threads, but in Iceland and only in Iceland, from the 12th through 17th centuries, every textile from every site fell into a tight range of four to 15 warp threads. Hayeur Smith was on a quest to find out why the cloth made by Greenland's women diverged so much from the cloth made by Iceland's female weavers. By dating the Tatsipataa cloth remains, Hayeur Smith was able to correlate the ratio of weft to warp threads in each sample with published records of climate data. The Greenlanders' cloth started out identical to the Icelanders' warp-dominant fabric but eventually shifted to contain more threads in its weft than its warp. [Extracted from the article] |
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