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Bronze age textiles
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ISBN: 9780715640784 071564078X Year: 2011 Volume: *3 Publisher: London Bristol Classical Press

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"In the ancient civilizations of the Eastern Mediterranean, textiles were generally much more costly than foodstuffs, animals or bronzes; it is very likely that the same was the case throughout prehistoric Europe. In this study, the first for over seventy years, Klavs Randsborg examines completely preserved woollen dresses, both female and male, from Danish oak coffin graves of the early second millennium BC. These garments, matched in age and superb preservation only by finds from Ancient Egypt, along with related artifacts such as images and figurines, are used to build up a rich picture of Bronze Age society and culture in the context of archaeological, ethnographical and historical information from Europe and beyond."--Publisher's description.


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Archaeological textiles : 1974 proceedings
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Year: 1975 Publisher: Washington : Textile Museum,

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Archéologie des textiles : des origines au Ve siècle : actes du colloque de Lattes, octobre 1999
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ISBN: 2907303430 9782907303439 Year: 2000 Volume: 14 Publisher: Montagnac : M. Mergoil,


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First textiles : the beginnings of textile manufacture in Europe and the Mediterranean : proceedings of the EAA Session held in Istanbul (2014) and the "First textiles" Conference in Copenhagen (2015)
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ISBN: 9781789256871 Year: 2018 Publisher: Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books,

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Textile production and the manufacture of clothing was one of the most essential daily activities in prehistory. Textiles were significan objects of practical use, and at the same time had cultural, social and symbolic meaning, crucial for displaying the identity, gender, social rank and status, or wealth of their users. Evidence of ancient clothing made of plant and animal fibres, fur, leather, or basketry and mats is scarce due to unfavourable preservation of organic materials. Only occasionally are prehistoric textiles, mats and wood implements preserved, mainly as a result of exceptional environmental conditions, such as waterlogged contexts like bogs, or in very dry or cold climates. In other cases textiles are sporadically mineralised, carbonised or preserved by metal corrosion. Textiles and leather can also be visible as imprints on clay. The beginning of textile manufacture is still vague, but can be traced back to the upper Palaeolithic. Important developments in textile technology, e.g. weaving, spinning with a spindle whorl and the introduction of wool, appeared in Europe and the Mediterranean throughout the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age. This book, a result of two international conferences held in Istanbul (2014) and Copenhagen (2015) devoted to the early textile production in Europe and the Mediterranean, aims to collect and investigate the combined evidence of textile and leather remains, tools, workplaces and textile iconography. The chapters discuss the recent developments in the research of ancient textiles and textile production, textile techniques suche as spinning, fabric and skin manufacture, use of textile tools and experimental textile production, textile techniques suche as spinning, fabric and skin manufacture, use of textile tools and experimental textile archaeology. The volume explores important cultural and social aspects of textile production, and its development. It includes comprehensive discussions of textiles, wood and bone implements from wetland settlements ; skin cloths ; specific clay, stone and bone tools for yarn and fabric making ; experiments with reconstructions of textile tools ; domestication of flax ; the social and symbolic role of textiles in the prehistory, and finally the limitations of available evidence.


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Textiles and textile production in Europe from prehistory to AD 400
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ISBN: 9781842174630 9781789253429 1842174630 1842179233 9781842179239 1299441327 9781299441323 Year: 2012 Volume: 11 Publisher: Oakville : Oxbow Books,

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There is evidence that ever since early prehistory, textiles have always had more than simply a utilitarian function. Textiles express who we are - our gender, age, family affiliation, occupation, religion, ethnicity and social, political, economic and legal status. Besides expressing our identity, textiles protect us from the harsh conditions of the environment, whether as clothes or shelter. We use them at birth for swaddling, in illness as bandages and at death as shrouds. We use them to carry and contain people and things. We use them for subsistence to catch fish and animals and for trans


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Making textiles in pre-Roman and Roman times : people, places, identities
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ISBN: 9781842177679 1842177672 9781842179024 1842179020 9781842179000 1842179004 9781842179017 1842179012 Year: 2013 Volume: 13 Publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom ; Oakville, Connecticut : Oxbow Books,

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Textile production is an economic necessity that has confronted all societies in the past. While most textiles were manufactured at a household level, valued textiles were traded over long distances and these trade networks were influenced by raw material supply, labour skills, costs, as well as by regional traditions. This was true in the Mediterranean regions and Making Textiles in pre-Roman and Roman times explores the abundant archaeological and written evidence to understand the typological and geographical diversity of textile commodities. Beginning in the Iron Age, the volume examines t

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