North European Textiles Until AD 1000
North European Textiles Until AD 1000

Author: Lise Bender Jørgensen

Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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This book is firstly an enormous catalogue of all textile finds from prehistoric, Roman and medieval contexts in Great Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Scandinavia. This data is used to show that the first steps towards organized textile production in northern Europe were taken more than 2,500 years ago, and that the industry that was to centre itself around the English Channel and North Sea coastal areas played an important part in the rise of the Carolingian Empire and Anglo-Saxon England.

North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles X
North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles X

Author: Eva B. Andersson Strand

Publisher: Oxbow Books

Published: 2009-12-11

Total Pages: 550

ISBN-13: 1782973524

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The NESAT symposium has grown from the first meeting in 1981 which was attended by 23 scholars, to over 100 at the tenth meeting that took place in Copenhagen in 2008, with virtually all areas of Europe represented. The 50 papers from the conference presented here show the vibrance of the study of archaeological textiles today. Examples studied come from the Bronze Age, Neolithic, the Iron Age, Roman, Viking, the Middle Ages and post-Medieval, and from a wide range of countries including Norway, Czech Republic, Poland, Greece, Germany, Lithuania, Estonia and the Netherlands. Modern techniques of analysis and examination are also discussed.

Preserved in the Peat
Preserved in the Peat

Author: Andy M. Jones

Publisher: Oxbow Books

Published: 2016-11-30

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1785702637

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Excavation of a Scheduled burial mound on Whitehorse Hill, Dartmoor revealed an unexpected, intact burial deposit of Early Bronze Age date associated with an unparalleled range of artefacts. The cremated remains of a young person had been placed within a bearskin pelt and provided with a basketry container, from which a braided band with tin studs had spilled out. Within the container were beads of shale, amber, clay and tin; two pairs of turned wooden studs and a worked flint flake. A unique item, possibly a sash or band, made from textile and animal skin was found beneath the container. Beneath this, the basal stone of the cist had been covered by a layer purple moor grass which had been collected in summer. Analysis of environmental material from the site has revealed important insights into the pyre material used to burn the body, as well as providing important information about the environment in which the cist was constructed. The unparalleled assemblage of organic objects has yielded insights into a range of materials which have not survived from the earlier Bronze Age elsewhere in southern Britain.

Making Textiles in pre-Roman and Roman Times
Making Textiles in pre-Roman and Roman Times

Author: Margarita Gleba

Publisher: Oxbow Books

Published: 2013-10-30

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1842177672

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Textile production is an economic necessity that has confronted all societies in the past. While most textiles were manufactured at a household level, valued textiles were traded over long distances and these trade networks were influenced by raw material supply, labour skills, costs, as well as by regional traditions. This was true in the Mediterranean regions and Making Textiles in pre-Roman and Roman times explores the abundant archaeological and written evidence to understand the typological and geographical diversity of textile commodities. Beginning in the Iron Age, the volume examines the foundations of the textile trade in Italy and the emergence of specialist textile production in Austria, the impact of new Roman markets on regional traditions and the role that gender played in the production of textiles. Trade networks from far beyond the frontiers of the Empire are traced, whilst the role of specialized merchants dealing in particular types of garment and the influence of Roman collegia on how textiles were produced and distributed are explored. Of these collegia, that of the fullers appears to have been particularly influential at a local level and how cloth was cleaned and treated is examined in detail, using archaeological evidence from Pompeii and provincial contexts to understand the processes behind this area of the textile trade.

Textile Production in Pre-Roman Italy
Textile Production in Pre-Roman Italy

Author: Margarita Gleba

Publisher: Oxbow Books

Published: 2008-11-05

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1782976051

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Older than both ceramics and metallurgy, textile production is a technology which reveals much about prehistoric social and economic development. This book examines the archaeological evidence for textile production in Italy from the transition between the Bronze Age and Early Iron Ages until the Roman expansion (1000-400 BCE), and sheds light on both the process of technological development and the emergence of large urban centres with specialised crafts. Margarita Gleba begins with an overview of the prehistoric Appennine peninsula, which featured cultures such as the Villanovans and the Etruscans, and was connected through colonisation and trade with the other parts of the Mediterranean. She then focuses on the textiles themselves: their appearance in written and iconographic sources, the fibres and dyes employed, how they were produced and what they were used for: we learn, for instance, of the linen used in sails and rigging on Etruscan ships, and of the complex looms needed to produce twill. Featuring a comprehensive analysis of textiles remains and textile tools from the period, the book recovers information about funerary ritual, the sexual differentiation of labour (the spinners and weavers were usually women) and the important role the exchange of luxury textiles played in the emergence of an elite. Textile production played a part in ancient Italian society's change from an egalitarian to an aristocratic social structure, and in the emergence of complex urban communities.

Trade in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond
Trade in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond

Author: D. J. Mattingly

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-11-30

Total Pages: 469

ISBN-13: 110719699X

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Demonstrates that the pre-Islamic Sahara was a more connected region than previously thought, with trade an essential linking element.

Economy and Society in Prehistoric Europe
Economy and Society in Prehistoric Europe

Author: Sherratt A. Sherratt

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2019-08-07

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 1474472567

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This book brings together a classic collection of Andrew Sherratt's work on the economic foundations of prehistoric Europe, which have put forward important new ideas about the development of farming, pastoralism, early technology and trade. In a series of contributions that have included wide-ranging syntheses and detailed local studies, he discusses their implications for the understanding of settlement-patterns, social structures, material culture, and less tangible aspects of prehistoric life such as the spread of languages and the use of narcotics.

Dress in Anglo-Saxon England
Dress in Anglo-Saxon England

Author: Gale R. Owen-Crocker

Publisher: Boydell Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9781843830818

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A vivid and detailed reconstruction of the costume worn in England before the arrival of the Norman conquerers.

The Agrarian History of Sweden
The Agrarian History of Sweden

Author: Janken Myrdal

Publisher: Nordic Academic Press

Published: 2011-01-07

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 9185509760

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Comprehensive and concise, this account details the agrarian history of Sweden - as it is defined by its present national borders - from the Neolithic times to present day. Key historical concepts and events are discussed, including the introduction of planned agriculture alongside the domestication of animals; the feudal relationships and interactions between men and women, various age groups, and different social classes during the Middle Ages; the changes brought about by industrialism and the development of political democracy; the effects of World Wars I and II; and Sweden's inclusion in the European Union in 1995. This study also examines the interdependence between agriculture and other industries as well as the relationship between agriculture and politics on a local, regional, national, and international level.