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Since early prehistoric times textiles have been a necessity for daily protection, social display, home furnishing, transportation, war logistics and various other purposes. Even though textiles only survive under extreme environmental conditions, many archaeological finds bear witness to these indispensable goods as well as to the craft itself. Finds such as fragmentary preserved fabrics, textiles mineralised on metal objects, carbonised fibres and textile imprints provide data on the quality and type of materials and techniques used to produce textiles in the past. In addition, a wealth of tools offer insights into the technologies used by prehistoric and ancient craftspeople to process the raw fibres into finished textile products. Even though textiles were crucial to past societies, they are less represented in archaeological publications than other finds. One of the reasons for this could be their gender-specific character. For decades, they were thought to be the result of a modest domestic craft, mainly practised by women. Other reasons are the general lack of interest in the subject and the lack of knowledge about such objects. As a result, the publication of textiles and textile-related tools is still prone to confusion and misinterpretation. Recent advances in the field of archaeological textiles provide good reasons for a reassessment of the old literature and for an in-depth analysis of how professionals in archaeology might approach and better publish textile-related artefacts in the future. This volume brings together archaeologists and other textile experts to share their insights into the history of recording textile artefacts, and to suggest new methodologies to integrate these finds into general archaeological publications and disseminate them to the broad public with the same consistency as other finds.
Contents
Part 1: Textiles in context
1. Introduction: Is there still a need for new methodologies for textiles and textile tools research?
Alina Iancu and Kalliope Sarri
2. Loom weights in context: Examples of textile tool documentation in the history of Aegean Bronze Age research
Sophia Vakirtzi
3. The Necropolis of the Wielbark Culture in Wilkowo (1st-3rd century AD) as an example of successful collaboration between field archaeologists, conservators, and textile archaeologists
Magdalena Przymorska-Sztuczka
Part 2: Spinning and weaving
4. Roman spinning tools: A history of misunderstanding
Ilija Dankovic
5. Anything but a distaff: The misidentification of textile tools in the north-western Roman provinces
Anique Hamelink
6. From text to loom: An interdisciplinary reassessment of loom implements in Roman and Early Byzantine Contexts (1st-5th century AD)
Claudia Vega Medeiros and Leyre Morgado-Roncal
7. Loom weights through the ages: An overview
Elisabeth Trinkl
8. Clay spools in archaeology
Alina Iancu
9. Lead spindle whorls and loom weights in the Aegean and in Pontus in the 1st millennium BC
Liviu Iancu
10. Making textile tools from scratch: Pot sherds and fragments of bricks recycled for spinning and weaving
Alina Iancu and Kalliope Sarri
11. Tablets for weaving and related equipment and tools
Lise Raeder Knudsen
Part 3: Other tools and tool containers
12. Grey areas in the identification and recording of textile tools: Some enigmatic cases from Aegean prehistory
Kalliope Sarri
13. Tool boxes for textile work? Funerary model chests from Iron Age Athens in the light of recent textile research
Saane Houby-Nielsen
Part 4: Interdisciplinary methods of tools research
14. Recording use-wear traces on textile tools with Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI): A case study from Archaic Messapia
Gaia Sabetta
