possible topics for that 2nd PhD

[kareina]

In an attempt to narrow down my choices, I have gone through all of the emails my potential supervisor and I have exchanged, and taken notes. I think this is everything we have discussed:

* We are looking at doing some sort of Provenance study using Laser-Ablation ICP-MS plus or minus other analytical techniques, plus or minus experimental archaeology.

* We have narrowed down the area of interest to be Scandinavia, with a possible emphasis on Swedish objects, plus or minus Faroe Islands, Island, and/or Greenland.

* We have narrowed down the time period to be Viking age (or earlier) (though Medieval has also been mentioned).

* We have mentioned the following types of objects, and I should choose only one as the focus of the project:

* Lead spindle whorls
* Steatite spindle whorls
* Steatite cooking vessels
* Glass vessels
* Glass in Viking beads
* Garnet in Viking beads
* Garnet in other jewelry

Comments

[katerit]

I'm partial to garnets in jewelry - especially since the Anglo Saxons used garnets and there were garnets in the latest big find.

[kareina]

Wound up deciding not to do the garnets, though I sighed when I set them in the "not at this time" list. But they would have been a bit more complex of a project, and getting enough information about their composition to be able to tell their source would mean either doing composition maps or at least a series of analysis spots across the whole garnet, which would likely be a bit more than the museums really want on jewelry.