Textiles and textile production in Europe from prehistory to AD 400
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Textiles and textile production in Europe from prehistory to AD 400
(Ancient textiles series, v. 11)
Oxbow Books, c2012
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
There is evidence that ever since early prehistory, textiles have always had more than simply a utilitarian function. Textiles express who we are - our gender, age, family affiliation, occupation, religion, ethnicity and social, political, economic and legal status. Besides expressing our identity, textiles protect us from the harsh conditions of the environment, whether as clothes or shelter. We use them at birth for swaddling, in illness as bandages and at death as shrouds. We use them to carry and contain people and things. We use them for subsistence to catch fish and animals and for transport as sails. In fact, textiles represent one of the earliest human craft technologies and they have always been a fundamental part of subsistence, economy and exchange. Textiles have an enormous potential in archaeological research to inform us of social, chronological and cultural aspects of ancient societies.
In archaeology, the study of textiles is often relegated to the marginalised zone of specialist and specialised subject and lack of dialogue between textile researchers and scholars in other fields means that as a resource, textiles are not used to their full potential or integrated into the overall interpretation of a particular site or broader aspects of human activity.
Textiles and Textile Production in Europe is a major new survey that aims to redress this. Twenty-three chapters collect and systematise essential information on textiles and textile production from sixteen European countries, resulting in an up-to-date and detailed sourcebook and an easily accessible overview of the development of European textile technology and economy from prehistory to AD 400.
All chapters have an introduction, give the chronological and cultural background and an overview of the material in question organised chronologically and thematically. The sources of information used by the authors are primarily textiles and textile tools recovered from archaeological contexts. In addition, other evidence for the study of ancient textile production, ranging from iconography to written sources to palaeobotanical and archaeozoological remains are included. The introduction gives a summary on textile preservation, analytical techniques and production sequence that provides a background for the terminology and issues discussed in the various chapters. Extensively illustrated, with over 200 colour illustrations, maps, chronologies and index, this will be an essential sourcebook not just for textile researchers but also the wider archaeological community.
Table of Contents
Introduction (Margarita Gleba and Ulla Mannering)
Austria
1. Austria: Bronze and Iron Age (Karina Groemer)
2. Austria: Roman Period (Kordula Gostencnik)
Denmark
3. Denmark (Ulla Mannering, Margarita Gleba and Marianne Bloch Hansen)
Germany
4. Germany: Pre-Roman Iron Age (Susan Moeller-Wiering)
5. Case Study: The Textiles from the Princely Burial at Eberdingen-Hochdorf, Germany (Johanna Banck-Burgess)
6.Germany: Roman Iron Age (Susan Moeller-Wiering and Julian Subbert)
Greece
7. Greece (Youlie Spantidaki and Christophe Moulherat)
Italy
8. Italy: Bronze Age (Marta Bazzanella)
9. Italy: Iron Age (Margarita Gleba)
10. Case Study: The Textiles from Verucchio, Italy (Annemarie Stauffer)
11. Case Study: The tablet-woven borders of Verucchio (Lise Raeder Knudsen)
Latvia
12. Latvia (Irita Zeiere)
Norway
13. Norway (Sunniva Halvorsen)
Poland
14. Poland (Jerzy Maik)
Slovak and Czech Republics
15. Slovak and Czech Republics (Tereza Belanova-Stolcova)
Spain
16. Spain (Carmen Alfaro Giner)
Sweden
17. Sweden (Mari-Louise Franzen, Amica Sundstroem, Eva Lundwall and Eva Andersson Strand)
Switzerland
18. Switzerland: Neolithic Period (Fabienne Medard)
19. Switzerland: Bronze and Iron Ages (Antoinette Rast-Eicher)
Ukraine
20. Ukraine (Margarita Gleba and Tatjana Krupa)
United Kingdom and Ireland
21. Scotland and Ireland (Elizabeth Wincott Heckett)
22. England: Pre-Roman Period (Dee DeRoche)
23. England: Bronze and Iron Ages (John Peter Wild)
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