Andersson Strand, Eva
(ed.)
Nosch, Marie-Louise
(ed.)
Editorial: Oxbow Books
Colección: Ancient Textiles Series ; 21
Número de páginas: 416 págs. 27.0 x 21.0 cm
Fecha de edición: 01-01-2023
EAN: 9781789259896
ISBN: 978-1-78925-989-6
Precio (sin IVA): 60,17 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 62,58 €
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 fibers and of elaborate textile techniques that were used to produce textiles of different qualities was well developed.
The combination of experimental archaeology, analyses of textile tools and find contexts allows for a discussion of the nature of textile production at different sites, regions and time periods. A collaboration between archaeologists specialized in their site and textile tool specialists has produced data sets of a large number of textile tools from several Bronze Age settlements, including Khania, Malia, Midea, Tiryns, Troia and Tel Kabri. The results of these analyses provide unique insights into both the production processes and, significantly, into the range of types of textiles that could have been produced at specific sites. These results illustrate the central, social and economic impact of textile production in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age societies.