| Description |
1 online resource (xxix, 471 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
PART I: THE BASIC TEXTILE CRAFTS--THE DATA: The domestication of fibers -- Spinning -- Looms and weaving -- The textile weaves: (1) The beginnings -- The textile weaves: (2) Egypt -- The textile weaves: (3) The Bronze Age -- The textile weaves: (4) The Iron Age -- The textile weaves: (5) An overall view -- Felt and felting -- Dyes -- PART II: DISCUSSIONS: Beginnings revisited -- World excavation -- Women's work -- The weight chase -- Minoans, Mycenaeans, and Keftiu -- And Penelope? |
| Summary |
Using innovative linguistic techniques, along with methods from palaeobiology and other fields, this book shows that spinning and pattern weaving began far earlier than has been supposed. Cloth making was an industry that consumed more time and effort, and was more culturally significant to prehistoric cultures, than anyone previously assumed. The textile industry is in fact older than pottery, and perhaps even older than agriculture and stockbreeding |
| Analysis |
Textiles History |
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Europe |
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Middle East |
| Notes |
Third printing, for the Princeton Paperback edition, 1992 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-430) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Textile fabrics, Prehistoric -- Europe
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Textile fabrics, Prehistoric -- Middle East
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Neolithic period -- Europe.
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Bronze age -- Middle East
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Neolithic period -- Middle East.
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Bronze age -- Europe.
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Antiquities
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Bronze age
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Neolithic period
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Textile fabrics, Prehistoric
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Textiel.
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Neolithicum.
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Bronstijd.
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Archeologie.
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Textiles et tissus préhistoriques -- Égée, Mer (région)
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Néolithique -- Égée, Mer (région)
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Âge du bronze -- Égée, Mer (région)
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045632
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Middle East -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90004414
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Europe
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Middle East
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Égée, Mer (région) -- Antiquités préhistoriques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780691201412 |
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0691201412 |
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