First Textiles: The Beginnings of Textile Production in Europe and the Mediterranean (Ancient Textiles Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (571 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1785707981 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-21 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Only occasionally are prehistoric textiles and associated implements preserved, mainly as a result of exceptional environmental conditions, such as waterlogged contexts like bogs, or in very dry or cold climates. The volume explores important cultural and social aspects of textile production, and its development.. The chapters discuss the recent achievements in the research of ancient textiles and textile production, textile techniques such as spinning, fabric and skin manufacture, use of textile tools and experimental textile archaeology. In other cases textiles are sporadically mineralised, carbonised or preserved by metal corrosion. The beginning of textile manufacture is still vague, but can be traced back to the upper Palaeolithic. This book is devoted to the early textile production in Europe and the Mediterranean and aims to collect and investigate the combined evidence of textile and leather remains, tools, workplaces and textile iconography. Textiles and leather can also be visible as imprints on clay. Textiles were significant objects of practical use, and at the same time had cultural, social and symbolic meaning, crucial for displaying the iden
She holds a PhD in Aegean archaeology from the University of Warsaw. His research interests focus on the third and second millennia BC Aegean, Europe and West Asia and more specifically on weight metrology, early trade, textile production, transfer of innovations and urbanisation processes. In 2013-2017 Magorzata Siennicka directed an international research project “First Textiles”
Her research interests focus on the Neolithic and Bronze Age Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, prehistoric cloth and textile production, craftsmanship, balance weights and metrology, settlements and architecture. In 2015-2017 she was awarded with FUGA post-doctoral grant of the National Science Centre for the project “Textile production in Bronze Age Greece – comparative studies of the Aegean weaving techniques”. . His research interests focus on the third and second millennia BC Aegean, Europe and West Asia and more specifically on weight metrology, early trade, textile production, transfer of innovations and urbanisation processes.