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Investigating Textile Production in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age
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Citation for published version (APA): Poursat, J-C., Rougemont, F., Cutler, J., Andersson Strand, E., & Nosch, M. L. B. (2015). Textile tools from Quartier Mu, Malia, Crete, Greece. In E. Andersson Strand, & M-L. Nosch (Eds.), Tools, Textiles and Contexts: Investigating Textile Production in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age (pp. 229-242). Oxbow Books. ancient textiles series, Vol.. 21
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Citation for published version (APA): Alberti, M. E., Aravantinos, V., Fappas, I., Papadaki, A., Rougemont, F., Andersson Strand, E., ... Cutler, J. (2015). Textile tools from Thebes, mainland Greece. In E. Andersson Strand, & M-L. Nosch (Eds.), Tools, Textiles and Contexts: Investigating Textile Production in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age (pp. 279-292). Oxbow Books. ancient textiles series, Vol.. 21
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON BRONZE AGE TEXTILE
EVA ANDERSSON, ELENA FELLUCA, MARIE-LOUISE NOSCH, LUCA PEYRONEL NEW PERSPECTIVES ON BRONZE AGE TEXTILE PRODUCTION IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN. THE FIRST RESULTS WITH EBLA AS A PILOT STUDY The systematic analyses of Bronze Age textile tools conducted by the Italian Ebla team (MAIS) and the Danish National Research Foundation's Centre for Textile Research (CTR) have made it possible to portray Ebla textile production. For weaving, the ground loom and the two-beam loom were the preferred technologies; the spinning tools, including spindle whorls, show gradual development and changes from the Early Bronze Age to the Middle Bronze Age, with the introduction of new types of tools and materials, reduced sizes and weights, likely indicating that thinner yarn and fi ner textiles were becoming more abundant.
Louise Quillien – Kalliope Sarri (Eds.) Textile Workers, 2020
Prehistoric textile production continues to attract the interest of scholars studying the remains of textiles as well as textile tools made of various materials, particularly clay, stone and bone. From Early Bronze Age (EBA) Greece (the 3rd millennium BC), almost no actual fabrics have been preserved, thus textile research can only investigate the numerous implements used in their production which were primarily found in the settlements. The aim of this paper is to discuss craftsmanship in EBA Greece. New insights regarding textile tools, yarn manufacture and weaving, and the organisation of production will be presented. The textile implements commonly preserved display various qualities and methods of production, from ‘home-made’ to standardised. Therefore, it seems that in some cases they may have been made by professional craftspeople and widely distributed, while in other cases they were made instead for private use. By analysing the archaeological contexts of such finds (especially clay spindle whorls and loom-weights), it is to a certain extent possible to reconstruct patterns in their use, for example regarding the working areas and the organisation of textile manufacture. There is no reliable evidence for specialised textile workshops in this period and a household-based production or individual/home industry is more probable. On account of the wide range of types and dimensions of spindle whorls and loom-weights, it can be assumed that textile craftspeople developed specialised skills in the manufacturing of yarns of various thicknesses and quality and textiles of diverse quality, patterns and weaves, according to their needs or the requirements of the market, whether it was local or part of wider trade routes. Keywords: Aegean; Early Bronze Age; textile production; textile workers; textile tools; craftsmanship
Textile Production and Specialisation in Bronze Age Europe
Sabatini, S. & Bergerbrant, S. (eds.) The Textile revolution in Bronze Age Europe, 2019
(2019) In recent years, numerous books and articles have been written about Bronze Age textiles, woollen textile production in particular, from the Mediterranean and the Near East. This volume encompasses a wide range of studies aiming to broaden the horizon, and, in the light of recent scientific advances, to shift the focus to continental and northern Europe. Iconographical and archaeological evidence shows that Bronze Age Europe was not only a dressed world, but also one that was open to innovation as far as fibres and textile technology are concerned. Since technological innovations necessarily affected economic and social frameworks, this whole work maintains that the study of textile production holds great potential for enhancing our understanding of the Bronze Age world.
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The archaeology of textiles is notoriously elusive though a wide range and variety of evidence for textile manufacture is preserved in Early Bronze Age contexts in Western Anatolia. In this paper I reconstruct a textile industry that was as consequential for our reconstructions of EBA Anatolian communities as the much more visible and discussed metallurgical industry. Most of the discussion focuses on Demircihöyük. Manfred Korfmann's excavations offer exceptionally detailed and well-published evidence for textile manufacture, though it has been overlooked in the broader textile literature. My reconstruction of a woollen textile industry at Demircihöyük, and more broadly in western Anatolia, informs a range of considerations including farming practice and interactions with the inhabited landscape, the spatial and social organization of labour, the increased potential for colourful display and self presentation/differentiation, and ultimately the emergence of regional centres like Troy II-III that were ruled by elites who were heavily vested in the production, exchange and display of textiles.
In 2013-2017 a research project “Greek Textile Tools. Continuity and changes in textile production in Early Bronze Age Greece” was undertaken in the Centre for Textile Research (CTR), SAXO Institute at the University of Copenhagen within a Marie Skłodowska Curie fellowship (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF, PIEF-GA-2012-329910). Its aim was to investigate , development and changes of textile tools, techniques of textile making, as well as influences from Anatolia and the Balkans on textile production in Early Helladic Greece. The research was based on a thorough investigation and analysis of archaeological finds from excavations mainly in the Peloponnese (predominantly spindle whorls and loom weights), experimental tests undertaken at CTR and the University of Warsaw (by courtesy of Dr. Agata Ulanowska), as well as collected ethnographical, zooarchaeological and archaeobotanical data. In this paper, the main results of the project will be summarised with emphasis on 1. Changes in spinning and weaving during Greek Early Bronze Age; 2. New textile implements and techniques; 3. Use of plant vs. animal fibres; 4. Organisation of textile production.
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