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Tools, Textiles and Contexts - Investigating Textile Production in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age (Paperback)
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Tools, Textiles and Contexts - Investigating Textile Production in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age (Paperback)
Series: Ancient Textiles Series, 21
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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 fibers
and of elaborate textile techniques that were used to produce
textiles of different qualities was well developed. The 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. The combination of
experimental archaeology, analyses of textile tools and find
contexts allows for a discussion of the nature of textile
production at different sites, regions and time periods. A
collaboration between archaeologists specialized in their site and
textile tool specialists has produced data sets of a large number
of textile tools from several Bronze Age settlements, including
Khania, Malia, Midea, Tiryns, Troia and Tel Kabri. The results of
these analyses provide unique insights into both the production
processes and, significantly, into the range of types of textiles
that could have been produced at specific sites. These results
illustrate the central, social and economic impact of textile
production in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age
societies.
General
Imprint: |
Oxbow Books
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Ancient Textiles Series, 21 |
Release date: |
May 2023 |
Editors: |
Eva Andersson Strand
• Marie-Louise Nosch
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Dimensions: |
279 x 216mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
416 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-78925-989-6 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-78925-989-4 |
Barcode: |
9781789259896 |
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