The genesis of the textile industry from adorned nudity to ritual regalia : the changing role of fibre crafts and their evolving techniques of manufacture in the ancient Near East from the Natufian to the Ghassulian / Janet Levy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levy, Janet, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Textile fabrics, Ancient--Middle East.

Textile fabrics, Ancient.

Textile industry--Middle East--History--To 1500.

Textile industry.

Middle East--Antiquities.

Middle East.

Natufian culture--Middle East.

Natufian culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 323 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress Archaeology, 2020.

Summary:

The Genesis of the Textile Industry from Adorned Nudity to Ritual Regalia documents and evaluates the changing role of fibre crafts and their evolving techniques of manufacture and also their ever-increasing wider application in the lives of the inhabitants of the earliest villages of the Ancient Near East. It is a broad-spectrum enquiry into fibre working in a broad swathe from Mesopotamia across Persia and Anatolia to the Nile Valley. It focuses, however, on the southern Levant from incipient sedentism in the Natufian culture, c. 13,000 cal BCE to the Ghassulian culture, c. 4500-3800/3700 cal BCE. This is the first comprehensive study addressing the fibre technologies of the southern Levant on a long chronological axis. Currently, fibre crafts play only a minor role in archaeological thinking.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 8, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9781789694499 (ebook) :

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Restricted for use by site license.