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The Competition of Fibres Early Textile Production in Western Asia, South-east and Central Europe (10,000–500 BC) Edited by Wolfram Schier and Susan Pollock Series: Ancient Textiles Series
A collections of papers on the study of wool and other fibres in ancient textile production. The central issues discussed in this new collected work in the highly successful Ancient Textiles Series are the relationships between fibre resources and availability on the one hand and the ways those resources were exploited to produce textiles on the other. Technological and economic practices – for example, the strategies by which raw materials were acquired and prepared – in the production of textiles play a major role in the papers collected here. EBOOK AVAILABLE
Oxbow Books • 9781789254297 Paperback • b/w illus. • 280 x 216 mm 232 pages • Available Now • £38.00
About the editors: Wolfram Schier is Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at Freie Universität Berlin. Prior to that he held positions as Assistant Professor at Heidelberg University and as Professor at the universities of Bamberg and Würzburg. Susan Pollock is professor at the Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie at the Freie Universität Berlin. Prior to that she was Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY.
9781789255515 £29.95 Oxbow Books
Contributions investigate the beginnings of wool use in western Asia and south-eastern Europe. The importance of wool in considerations of early textiles is due to at least two factors. First, both wild as well as some domesticated sheep are characterised by a hairy rather than a woolly coat. This raises the question of when and where woolly sheep emerged, a question that has not up until now been resolvable by genetic or other biological analyses. Second, wool as a fibre has played a major role both economically and socially in both western Asian and European societies from as early as the 3rd millennium BC in Mesopotamia, and it continues to do so, in different ways, up to the modern day. Despite the importance of wool as a fibre resource, contributors demonstrate clearly that its development and use can only be properly addressed in the context of a consideration of other fibres, both plant and animal.
9781789251203 £35.00 Oxbow Books
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