Tools, textiles and contexts : investigating textile production in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age
Eva B. Andersson Strand (Editor), Marie-Louise Nosch (Editor)
Textile production is one of the most important crafts in Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age societies and recent interdisciplinary and collaborative work offers crucial new perspectives into this field. The new and updated catalogue of archaeological textile finds presented here clearly demonstrates, even from the few extant finds, that knowledge of the use of fibres and of elaborate textile techniques that were used to produce textiles of different qualities was well developed.00The functional analysis of spindle whorls and loom weights can be explored through experimental archaeology employing newly developed methodologies. The results bring new insights into the types of textile that may potentially have been made by such tools. This is highly pertinent as textile tools often constitute the single most important and plentiful type of evidence for the various stages of textile production in the archaeological record.0
History
xiii, 383 pages ; 29 cm.
9781842174722, 184217472X
900685669
1. Research history of textile tools / L. Rahmstorf
The research history of experimental work on textile production / L. Olofsson. 2. The basics of textile tools and textile technology
from fibre to fabric / E. Andersson Strand. 4. Experimental testing of Bronze Age textile tools / E. Andersson Strand, L. Olofsson, M.-L. Nosch
Examination of spinning and weaving samples / S. Möller-Wiering
Test of loom weights and 2/2 twill weaving / L. Olofsson and M.L. Nosch
Weaving with Crescent Shaped Loom Weights. An investigation of a special kind of loom weight / A. Wisti Lassen
From tools to textiles, concluding remarks / E. Andersson Strand. 5. Introduction to the CTR database / E. Andersson Strand & M.L. Nosch
Mathematical Analysis of the Spindle Whorl and Loom Weight data in the CTR Database / R. Firth. 6. Textile Tools and Textile Production: Studies of Selected Bronze Age Sites. Introduction / E. Andersson Strand, M.-L. Nosch and J. Cutler
Textile tools from Troia / Marta Guzowska, Ralf Becks, Eva Andersson Strand, Joanne Cutler & Marie-Louise Nosch
Textile tools from Apliki, Cyprus / Joanna Smith, Joanne Cutler, Eva Andersson Strand, & Marie-Louise Nosch
Textile tools from Kition, Cyrprus / Joanna Smith, Joanne Cutler, Eva Andersson Strand, & Marie-Louise Nosch
Textile tools from Akrotiri, Thera, Greece / Iris Tzachili, Stella Spantidaki, Eva Andersson Strand, Marie-Louise Nosch & Joanne Cutler
Textile tools from Archontiko, Greece / Evi Papadopoulou, Eva Andersson Strand, Marie-Louise Nosch & Joanne Cutler
Textile tools from Ayia Triada, Greece / Pietro Militello, Eva Andersson Strand, Marie-Louise Nosch & Joanne Cutler
Textile tools from Khania, Crete / Birgitta Pålsson Hallager, Erik Hallager, Maria Vlasaki, Maria Bruun, Yannis Tzedakis, Eva Andersson Strand, Marie-Louise Nosch & Joanne Cutler
Textile Tools from Quartier Mu, Malia, Crete / Jean-Claude Poursat, Françoise Rougemont, Eva Andersson Strand, Marie-Louise Nosch & Joanne Cutler
Textile Tools from Midea, Greece / Katie Demakopoulou, Yannis Fappas, Ann-Louise Schallin, Eva Andersson Strand, Marie-Louise Nosch & Joanne Cutler
Textile Production at Mycenae / Iphiyenia Tournavitou, Eva Andersson Strand, Marie-Louise Nosch & Joanne Cutler
Textile Tools from Phaistos, Greece (Pietro Militello, Eva Andersson Strand, Marie-Louise Nosch & Joanne Cutler
Textile Tools from Sitagroi / Ernestine S. Elster, Eva Andersson Strand, Marie-Louise Nosch & Joanne Cutler
Textile Tools from Thebes, Greece / Maria Emanuela Alberti, Vassilis Aravantinos, Ioannis Fappas, Athina Papadaki, Françoise Rougemont, Eva Andersson Strand, Marie-Louise Nosch & Joanne Cutler
Textile tools from Tiryns / Lorenz Rahmstorf, Malgorzata Siennicka, Eva Andersson Strand, Marie-Louise Nosch & Joanne Cutler
Textile Tools from Tel Kabri, Israel / Asaf Yasur-Lankan, Nurith Goshen, Eva Andersson Strand, Marie-Louise Nosch & Joanne Cutler