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The Competition of Fibres - Early Textile Production in Western Asia, Southeast and Central Europe (10,000-500 BC) (Paperback)
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The Competition of Fibres - Early Textile Production in Western Asia, Southeast and Central Europe (10,000-500 BC) (Paperback)
Series: Ancient Textiles Series, 36
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The central issues discussed in this new collected work in the
highly successful ancient textiles series are the relationships
between fiber resources and availability on the one hand and the
ways those resources were exploited to produce textiles on the
other. Technological and economic practices - for example, the
strategies by which raw materials were acquired and prepared - in
the production of textiles play a major role in the papers
collected here. Contributions investigate the beginnings of wool
use in western Asia and southeastern Europe. The importance of wool
in considerations of early textiles is due to at least two factors.
First, both wild as well as some domesticated sheep are
characterized by a hairy rather than a woolly coat. This raises the
question of when and where woolly sheep emerged, a question that
has not up to now been resolvable by genetic or other biological
analyses. Second, wool as a fiber has played a major role both
economically and socially in both western Asian and European
societies from as early as the 3rd millennium BCE in Mesopotamia,
and it continues to do so, in different ways, up to the modern day.
Despite the importance of wool as a fiber resource contributors
demonstrate clearly that its development and use can only be
properly addressed in the context of a consideration of other
fibers, both plant and animal. Only within a framework that takes
into account historically and regionally variable strategies of
procurement, processing, and the products of different types of
fibers is it possible to gain real insights into the changing roles
played by fibers and textiles in the lives of people in different
places and times in the past. With relatively rare, albeit
sometimes spectacular exceptions, archaeological contexts offer
only poor conditions of preservation for textiles. As a result,
archaeologists are dependent on indirect or proxy indicators such
as textile tools (e.g., loom weights, spindle whorls) and the
analysis of faunal remains to explore a range of such proxies and
methods by which they may be analyzed and evaluated in order to
contribute to an understanding of fiber and textile production and
use in the past.
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