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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.
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