Ancient textile production from an interdisciplinary perspective : humanities and natural sciences interwoven for our understanding of textiles / Agata Ulanowska, Karina Grömer, Ina Vanden Berghe, Magdalena Öhrman, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ulanowska, Agata, editor.

Grömer, Karina, editor.

Vanden Berghe, Ina, editor.

Öhrman, Magdalena, editor.

ProQuest ebook central

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Textile industry--History--To 1500.

Textile industry.

Textile fabrics, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer, [2022]

Contents:

List of contributors

Part I: About this volume and textile research in 2020

Chapter 1. Introduction (Agata Ulanowska, Karina Gromer, Ina Vanden Berghe and Magdalena Ohrman)

Chapter 2. Old Textiles New Possibilities. Ten Years on (Eva Andersson Strand, Ulla Mannering and Marie-Louise Nosch)

Part II: Interdisciplinarity of Colour: Dye analyses and dyeing technologies

Chapter 3. Monobromoindigo: The Singular Chromatic Biomarker for the Identification of the Malacological Provenance of Archaeological Purple Pigments from Hexaplex Trunculus Species (Zvi C. Koren)

Chapter 4. Sasanid Dyes from Ancient Persia Case Study Chehrabad in Northern Iran (Ina Vanden Berghe and Karina Gromer)

Part III: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Textile Tools

Chapter 5. Textile Production in Some Early Neolithic Settlements in North Macedonia (Zlata Blazeska and Jasemin Nazim)

Chapter 6. Tradition versus Innovation? Horizontal (Ground-) and Vertical (Warp-weighted) Looms at Koukonisi, Lemnos (Tina Boloti)

Chapter 7. Weaving Traditions in Archaic Sicily: The Case Study of Portella SantAnna (Gabriella Longhitano)

Chapter 8. Visible Tools, Invisible Craft: An Analysis of Textile Tools across the Iron Age South Coast of Britain (Lewis Ferrero)

Chapter 9. Combing the Data: Re-evaluating Weaving Combs in the Textile Production Sequence During the British Iron Age (Jennifer Beamer)

Chapter 10. From Use Wear to User: Working with Literary Sources on Worn Textile Tools (Magdalena Ohrman)

Part IV: Traditions and Contexts: Fibres, Fabrics, Techniques, Uses and Meanings

Chapter 11. Lime Bast Winning: Know-How, Labour Input and Quantity Needed for the Production of Two Selected Neolithic Finds (Sabine Karg)

Chapter 12. Food for Thought or Threads for Weaving: Can we Identify the Uses for Ancient Flaxseeds Discovered in the Southern Levant? (Deborah Cassuto, Andrea Orendi and Itzhaq Shai)

Chapter 13. The Relationship between Textile Remains in a Hoard of Alexander II Zabinas Coins and Loom Weights Discovered at Hellenistic Tell Iztabba (Beth Shean, Nysa-Scythopolis), Israel (Orit Shamir, Achim Lichtenberger and Oren Tal)

Chapter 14. Unravelling the Threads of the Nubian Openworks. New Inquiries on a Unique Textile Tradition from Meroitic Sudan (c. 350 BCE350 CE) (Elsa Yvanez and Ulrikka Mokdad)

Chapter 15. Interdisciplinary Methods and New Perspectives on Inscribed Textiles: A Case Study of Christian Tiraz (Julia L. Galliker and Helga Rosel-Mautendorfer)

Chapter 16. Weaving Experiments with the Rigid Heddle: Woven-in Metal Spirals from Siksala and Auleja technique (Ronja Lau)

Part V: Digital Tools

Chapter 17. Investigating Relations between Textile Production and Seals and Sealing Practices in Bronze Age Greece: A Presentation of the New Textile and Seals Project Database (Agata Ulanowska)

Chapter 18. 3D Visualization of the 2400-Year-Old Garments of Salt Man 4 from Chehrabad, Iran (Aleksei Moskvin, Karina Gromer, Mariia Moskvina, Victor Kuzmichev, Abolfazl Aali and Thomas Stollner).

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

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ISBN:

9783030921705

3030921700

Publisher Number:

99991036742

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