Prehistoric Textiles : : The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with Special Reference to the Aegean /

Prehistoric Textiles : : The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with Special Reference to the Aegean / / E. J.W. Barber.

This pioneering work revises our notions of the origins and early development of textiles in Europe and the Near East. Using innovative linguistic techniques, along with methods from palaeobiology and other fields, it shows that spinning and pattern weaving began far earlier than has been supposed....

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Barber, E. J.W.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1991
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (504 p.) :; 4 color plates, 217 b&w illustrations, 4 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • PREFACE
  • Site Maps
  • NUMERICAL KEY TO MAP SITES (For alphabetical key, see Index.)
  • CHRONOLOGY (IN LOGARITHMIC SCALE) OF MAIN ERAS MENTIONED , 20,000-400 B.C
  • CHRONOLOGY OF LATER CULTURES MENTIONED, 3000-400 B.C
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I THE BASIC TEXTILE CRAFTS— THE DATA
  • CHAPTER 1 THE DOMESTICATION OF FIBERS
  • CHAPTER 2 SPINNING
  • CHAPTER 3 LOOMS AND WEAVING
  • CHAPTER 4 THE TEXTILE WEAVES (1) THE BEGINNINGS
  • CHAPTER 5 THE TEXTILE WEAVES (2) EGYPT
  • CHAPTER 6 THE TEXTILE WEAVES (3) THE BRONZE AGE
  • CHAPTER 7 THE TEXTILE WEAVES (4) THE IRON AGE
  • CHAPTER 8 THE TEXTILE WEAVES (5) AN OVERALL VIEW
  • CHAPTER 9 FELT AND FELTING
  • CHAPTER 10 DYES
  • PART II DISCUSSIONS
  • INTRODUCTION TO PART II
  • CHAPTER 11 BEGINNINGS REVISITED
  • CHAPTER 12 WORD EXCAVATION
  • CHAPTER 13 WOMEN'S WORK
  • CHAPTER 14 THE WEIGHT CHASE
  • CHAPTER 15 MINOANS, MYCENAEANS, AND KEFTIU
  • CHAPTER 16 AND PENELOPE?
  • CODA
  • APPENDICES
  • APPENDIX A: THE LOOM WEIGHTS: DATA TABLE AND ITS BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR CHAPTER 3
  • APPENDIX B: THE HOLLOW WHORLS: LIST AND ITS BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR CHAPTER 14
  • APPENDIX C AEGEAN REPRESENTATIONS OF CLOTH LIST AND ITS BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR CHAPTER 15
  • APPENDIX D EGYPTIAN TOMBS WITH AEGEAN DATA: LIST AND ITS BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR CHAPTER 15
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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