Timber for Vasa
Author(s): Aoife M Daly
Year: 2018
Summary
Purchase records show that timber for the building of Vasa was bought in Småland (Sweden’s eastern region), Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) and Amsterdam.
Extensive dendrochronological/dendroprovenance analysis is currently underway of the timber of Vasa, to determine the provenance of the trees used, to find out:
How much timber was brought to Stockholm for Vasa from these different sources and where were they used in the ship?
Which timbers came from Småland, and what proportion of the timber could be supplied from here?
What kind of timber was coming from the Southern Baltic region, and can we pinpoint the source?
If timber was bought in Amsterdam for Vasa, where was this timber actually harvested?
Already very interesting results are emerging.
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 677152).
Cite this Record
Timber for Vasa. Aoife M Daly. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441950)
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Keywords
General
Dendroprovenance
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timber trade
Geographic Keywords
Denmark
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Western Europe
Temporal Keywords
1625-1628
Spatial Coverage
min long: 8.093; min lat: 54.562 ; max long: 15.138; max lat: 57.736 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 237