Exploring ancient textiles pushing the boundaries of established methodologies

"Over the past 30 years, research on archaeological textiles has developed into an important field of scientific study. It has greatly benefited from interdisciplinary approaches, which combine the application of advanced technological knowledge to ethnographic, textual and experimental investi...

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Other Authors:	Dickey, Alistair (Editor, Contributor), Gleba, Margarita (Editor), Hitchens, Sarah (Editor), Longhitano, Gabriella (Editor, Contributor), Shaw, Ian, 1961- (Author of introduction, etc.), Foxhall, Lin (Author of afterword, colophon, etc.)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Published:	Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2022.
Subjects:	Textile fabrics, Ancient > Research > Methodology.

Table of Contents:

Preface / Ian Shaw
Ancient tools and textiles : thinking outside the box / Gabriella Longhitano, Sarah Hitchens, Alistair Dickey and Margarita Gleba
Application of analytical techniques on tools. Preliminary remarks on some wear traces on Egyptian and Levantine textile tools / Chiara Spinazzi-Lucchesi
Visible tools, invisible craft : an analysis of textile tools in Iron Age Cornwall / Lewis Ferrero
Tools and their products : spindle whorls decorated by yarn impressions from Iron Age Donja Dolina in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina / Julia Kramberger
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
Application of analytical techniques on textiles and fibres. Early fibre production in the west coast of South America : the case of plant-fibre technology of the south coast of Peru / Camila Alday
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
Using textiles to reconstruct looms : burial shrouds from Deir el-Banat (Fayum, Egypt) / Olga Orfinsaya and Darya Klyuchnikova
EDS analysis of Neolithic to Early Dynastic Egyptian woven cloth in the Bolton Museum collection / Alistair Dickey
A post-excavation study using the archaeothanatological approach to determine the possibility of wrapping in early Bronze Age burials / Eleanor James
Cultural and personal identity. Beyond textile production : what textile tools can tell us about networks of craftspeople and cultural identity / Gabriella Longhitano
Textiles and human needs : a discussion of textile production in the Hallstatt culture / Karina Grömer
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 / Francesco Meo
Translating sailcloth into raw materials, land, and labour / Lise Bender Jørgensen
Afterword / Lin Foxhall.