Tradition and innovation in textile technology in Bronze Age Europe and the Mediterranean - session report, TEA 51, 2017, 14-15 (original) (raw)

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.

New Research on Bronze Age Textile Production

Tools and Textiles - Texts and Contests is an international and interdisciplinary research programme hosted by the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for Textile Research (CTR) in 2005-10. The aim is to investigate textile production in the Aegean, Anatolia and in the Levant during the Bronze Age. The programme gathers a wide range of specialists such as prehistoric archaeologists, classical archaeologists, craftspeople, historians and philologists. Our reason for choosing this focus area is the complexity and variety of sources: textile tools, inscriptions with extensive records on production management, glyptic, frescoes and relief iconography in which various types of dress occur, as well as remains of archaeological textiles.

Investigating Textile Production in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age

2018

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