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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.
Minoan ladies, Scythian warriors, Roman and Sarmatian merchants,
prehistoric weavers, gold sheet figures, Vikings, Medieval saints
and sinners, Renaissance noblemen, Danish peasants, dressmakers and
Hollywood stars appear in the pages of this anthology. This is not
necessarily how they dressed in the past, but how the authors of
this book think they dressed in the past, and why they think so. No
reader of this book will ever look at a reconstructed costume in a
museum or at a historical festival, or watch a film with a historic
theme again without a heightened awareness of how, why, and from
what sources, the costumes were reconstructed. The seventeen
contributors come from a variety of disciplines: archaeologists,
historians, curators with ethnological and anthropological
backgrounds, designers, a weaver, a conservator and a scholar of
fashion in cinema, are all specialists interested in ancient or
historical dress who wish to share their knowledge and expertise
with students, hobby enthusiasts and the general reader. The
anthology is also recommended for use in teaching students at
design schools.
This work provides the primary source as well as German
translations, critical commentary, and overview discussions on the
topic of clothing.
The NESAT symposium has grown from the first meeting in 1981 which
was attended by 23 scholars, to over 100 at the tenth meeting that
took place in Copenhagen in 2008, with virtually all areas of
Europe represented. The 50 papers from the conference presented
here show the vibrance of the study of archaeological textiles
today. Examples studied come from the Bronze Age, Neolithic, the
Iron Age, Roman, Viking, the Middle Ages and post-Medieval, and
from a wide range of countries including Norway, Czech Republic,
Poland, Greece, Germany, Lithuania, Estonia and the Netherlands.
Modern techniques of analysis and examination are also discussed.
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