Exploring Ancient Textiles: Pushing the Boundaries of Established Methodologies

Cover
Contents
List of contributors and editors
List of figures
List of tables
Preface
Introduction: Ancient tools and textiles – Thinking outside the box
Part I                                                                                                                                   Application of analytical techniques on tools
1                                                                                                                                            Preliminary remarks on some wear traces on Egyptian and Levantine textile tools
2                                                                                                                                                   Visible tools, invisible craft: An analysis of textile tools in Iron Age Cornwall
3                                                                                                  Tools and their products: Spindle whorls decorated by yarn impressions from Iron Age Donja Dolina in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina
4                                                                                                       Shears in the ancient world: A comparison between the Iberian culture of southern Spain and Roman culture in northern Italy
Part II                                                                                                 Application of analytical techniques on textiles and fibres
5                                                                                                     Bast fibre production from the southern coast of Peru: The case of the La Yerba II and III sites
6                                                                                                  Humans, wool textiles, chronology, and provenance: A case study from the Orenburg region in the southern Urals, Russia
7                                                                                                    Using textiles to reconstruct looms: Burial shrouds from Deir el-Banat (Fayum, Egypt)
8                                                                                                       EDS analysis of Neolithic to Early Dynastic Egyptian woven cloth in the Bolton Museum collection
9                                                                                                       A post-excavation study using the archaeothanatological approach to determine the possibility of wrapping in Early Bronze Age burials of Britain
Part III                                                                                              Cultural and personal identity
10                                                                                                  Beyond textile production: What textile tools can tell us about networks of craftspeople and cultural identity
11 Textiles and human needs: A discussion of textile production in the Hallstatt culture
12                                                                                                   Textile tools and textiles from the ninth–eighth century BC necropolis of Incoronata (Basilicata, Italy): Evidence for culture, status, and specialisation in a south Italian indigenous community
13                                                                                                   Translating sailcloth into raw materials, land, and labour
Afterword