Towards the identification of dyestuffs in Early Iron Age Scandinavian peat bog textiles |
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Authors: | I. Vanden Berghe Margarita Gleba Ulla Mannering |
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Affiliation: | 1. Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK/IRPA), Jubelpark 1, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium;2. The Danish National Research Foundation''s Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen, 102 Njalsgade, 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark |
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Abstract: | A large systematic dye investigation of prehistoric Danish and Norwegian bog textiles was carried out using high performance liquid chromatography with photo diode array detection. After the selection of the most suitable protocol for dye extraction and HPLC analysis for this specific group of archaeological samples, the second part included the characterisation of the dyes detected in the whole series of the Early Iron Age textiles and the interpretation of the dyeing technology. Natural organic dyes were found from the three main categories of natural dyes, hence throwing new light on the use of biological dye sources in Early Iron Age Scandinavia. The results clearly indicate that most Scandinavian peat bog textiles originally were dyed and that already during the 1st millennium BC, the populations in Scandinavia were familiar with the dyeing technology. |
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Keywords: | Natural organic dyes Dye extraction High performance liquid chromatography Archaeological textiles Scandinavia Early Iron Age |
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