Tools, textiles and contexts : textile production in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age /
Textile production is one of the most important crafts in Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age societies and recent interdisciplinary and collaborative work offers crucial new perspectives into this field. The new and updated catalogue of archaeological textile finds presented here clearly de...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, UK ; Philadelphia :
Oxbow Books,
2015.
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| Series: | Ancient textiles series ;
volume 21. |
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| Summary: | Textile production is one of the most important crafts in Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age societies and recent interdisciplinary and collaborative work offers crucial new perspectives into this field. The new and updated catalogue of archaeological textile finds presented here clearly demonstrates, even from the few extant finds, that knowledge of the use of fibres and of elaborate textile techniques that were used to produce textiles of different qualities was well developed.00The functional analysis of spindle whorls and loom weights can be explored through experimental archaeology employing newly developed methodologies. The results bring new insights into the types of textile that may potentially have been made by such tools. This is highly pertinent as textile tools often constitute the single most important and plentiful type of evidence for the various stages of textile production in the archaeological record.. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 383 pages : illustrations (some color, color maps ; 29 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781842174722 (hardback) 184217472X (hardback) |