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Clothing was an essential part of material culture in ancient
societies both as a form of body protection and as house equipment.
Besides a practical function, textiles played a crucial role in
communicating various aspects of social and personal identity.
Based largely on the analysis of textile tools, this book is
intended to be the first systematic attempt at reconstructing
textile culture in ancient Sicily. Textile implements represent the
most abundant category of evidence for textile activity in Sicily
and in this book they are used as a means to explore the social
dynamics within cultural interactions in the final Bronze–Iron
Age and Archaic Sicily. The book begins with an overview of the
cultural complexity of communities in Sicily and the Aeolian
islands, focusing on two crucial periods of Sicilian history, which
are characterised by intense movements of peoples from the Italian
peninsula and the establishment of Greek and Phoenician
settlements. Through the investigation of textile tools, the book
discusses several key aspects, including technological features of
textile technology and production, knowledge transfer, networks of
weavers, as well as the social significance of textile activity. By
employing an interdisciplinary perspective, this book is important
not only for textile specialists but also for scholars and students
dealing with culturally hybrid frameworks of ancient Sicily and
provides a springboard for future studies on textile culture and
cultural interactions in the ancient world.
Over the past 30 years, research on archaeological textiles has
developed into an important field of scientific study. It has
greatly benefitted from interdisciplinary approaches, which combine
the application of advanced technological knowledge to
ethnographic, textual and experimental investigations. In exploring
textiles and textile processing (such as production and exchange)
in ancient societies, archaeologists with different types and
quality of data have shared their knowledge, thus contributing to
well-established methodology. In this book, the papers highlight
how researchers have been challenged to adapt or modify these
traditional and more recently developed analytical methods to
enable extraction of comparable data from often recalcitrant
assemblages. Furthermore, they have applied new perspectives and
approaches to extend the focus on less investigated aspects and
artefacts. The chapters embrace a broad geographical and
chronological area, ranging from South America and Europe to
Africa, and from the 11th millennium BC to the 1st millennium AD.
Methodological considerations are explored through the medium of
three different themes focusing on tools, textiles and fibres, and
culture and identity. This volume constitutes a reflection on the
status of current methodology and its applicability within the
wider textile field. Moreover, it drives forward the methodological
debates around textile research to generate new and stimulating
conversations about the future of textile archaeology.
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