Exploring Ancient Textiles

List of Contributors and Editors



Preface

Ian Shaw



Ancient tools and textiles: Thinking outside the box

Gabriella Longhitano, Sarah Hitchens, Alistair Dickey and Margarita Gleba



Part I: Application of Analytical Techniques on Tools

1. Preliminary remarks on some wear traces on Egyptian and Levantine textile tools

Chiara Spinazzi-Lucchesi

2. Visible tools, invisible craft: an analysis of textile tools in Iron Age Cornwall

Lewis Ferrero

3. Tools and their products: spindle whorls decorated by yarn impressions from Iron Age Donja Dolina in Northern Bosnia and Herzegovina

Julia Kramberger

4. Shears in the ancient world: A comparison between the Iberian culture of southern Spain and Roman culture in northern Italy

Patricia Rosell Garrido and Fabio Spagiari



Part II: Application of Analytical Techniques on Textiles and Fibres

5. Early fibre production in the west coast of South America: The case of plant-fibre technology of the south coast of Peru

Camila Alday

6. Humans, wool textiles, chronology and provenance: a case study from the Orenburg region in the southern Urals, Russia

Natalia Shishlina, Olga Orfinskaya, Daria Kiseleva, Anna Mamonova, Lidia Kuptsova, and Tomasz Goslar

7. Using textiles to reconstruct looms: burial shrouds from Deir el-Banat (Fayum, Egypt)

Olga Orfinsaya and Darya Klyuchnikova

8. EDS analysis of Neolithic to Early Dynastic Egyptian woven cloth in the Bolton Museum collection

Alistair Dickey

9. A post-excavation study using the archaeothanatological approach to determine the possibility of wrapping in Early Bronze Age burials

Eleanor James



Part III: Cultural and Personal Identity

10. Beyond textile production: What textile tools can tell us about networks of craftspeople and cultural identity

Gabriella Longhitano

11. Textiles and human needs. A discussion of textile production in the Hallstatt Culture

Karina Groemer

12. Textile tools and textiles from the ninth-eighth century BC necropolis of Incoronata (Basilicata, Italy): Evidence for culture, status and specialisation in south Italian indigenous community

Francesco Meo

13. Translating sailcloth into raw materials, land, and labour

Lise Bender Jorgensen



Afterword

Lin Foxhall

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• Metodologia e técnicas da arqueologia
• Arqueologia pré-histórica
• Artes decorativas
• Obras em matérias têxteis
• História social e cultural

11th millennium BC; 1st millennium AD; Africa; ancient societies; Archaeological Method & Theory; Archaeological textiles; archaeology; artefacts; assemblages; culture; data; ethnographic investigations; Europe; experimental investigations; fibres; identity; interdisciplinary; methodology; South America; textiles; Textiles & Weaving, Clothing & Stitchery; textual investigations; tools