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Textile Production in Pre-Roman Italy
No full textOlder than both ceramics and metallurgy, textile technology reveals much about prehistoric social and economic development. Textile production has always been a fundamental part of economy and exchange and was practiced on all levels of society. This work examines evidence for textile production in Italy, focusing primarily on the period from the transition between the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age until the Roman expansion (1000–400 BCE). The period from the 10th to the 6th century BCE is deemed particularly important as it witnesses the shift from small villages of mostly egalitarian type to large urban centred with social stratification, specialised crafts, more intensified and organised production and commercial exchange throughout and beyond the Italic sphere.
Based largely on the surviving textiles and tools associated with textile production, this volume sets the stage for future studies of textile production in ancient Italy and Mediterranean. It will be of great interest, not only to textile specialists and archaeologists working on pre-Roman sites in Italy, but also to excavators of this frequently overlooked class of archaeological evidence, and lead towards a better understanding of ancient textile technology and broader issues associated with it
L’abbigliamento funerario
No full textL'articolo prende in esame alcuni lembi di tessuto rinvenuti nella tomba 418 Spina-Gaudo di Paestum. Le analisi condotte con il SEM consentono non soltanto di conoscere la qualità delle fibre ed il tipo di tessuto prodotto ma anche la qualità della lana utilizzata, che risulta eccezionale
The first plant bast fibre technology: identifying splicing in archaeological textiles
Full text linkRecent research into plant bast fibre technology points to a Neolithic European
tradition of working fibres into threads by splicing, rather than draft spinning. The major
issue now is the ability of textile specialists and archaeobotanists to distinguish the
technology of splicing from draft spun fibres. This paper defines the major types of
splicing and proposes a method to observe, identify and interpret spliced thread
technology. The identification of spliced yarns is evaluated through the examination of
textiles from Europe, Egypt and the Near East. Through the application of this method
we propose that the switch from splicing to draft spinning plant fibres occurred much
later than previously thought. The ramifications of this shift in plant processing has
profound implications for understanding the chaîne opératoire of this ubiquitous and
time-consuming technology
Bronze Age moss fibre garments from Scotland – the jury’s out
Full text linkIn the light of recent discoveries of early to middle Bronze Age burials with mats and fibrous material in Scotland, for example at Langwell farm and Forteviot, it was deemed timely to re-evaluate earlier finds of this period, several of which were discovered and initially reported on nearly a century ago. As part of this research it was noted that three Bronze Age finds from the old literature were reported as clothing or shrouds made of hair moss (Polytrichum commune). Three of these are reassessed here, with a detailed re-examination of the “hair moss apron” from North Cairn Farm. Technological analysis of this find showed no evidence for the twining previously reported and SEM fibre analysis shows that it is unlikely to be hair moss or indeed Bronze Age. However, there is other evidence for hair moss artefacts from other British Bronze Age and Roman contexts. These suggest it is possible that hair moss fibre was used in Scotland in the Bronze Age, but that the North Cairn Farm fibrous object should no longer be considered among this evidence
Textile Production and Consumption in Roman Venetia (Italy): preliminary results of the study of mineralised fibres and textiles
No full textThis paper summarises the results of the TRAMA (Textiles in Roman Archaeology: Methods and Analysis) project, which aims to analyse Roman textiles from Venetia. As elsewhere in Italy, because of the unfavourable climatic conditions and geological features, fibres, yarns and textiles are rarely preserved in this area, with only one Roman fabric known until recently. This project focuses on a systematic census of organic and mineralised fabrics, in order to better understand textile production and consumption patterns in the region, which was praised for the high quality of its textile products by contemporary writers. To date, 29 artefacts with preserved, mineralised textile traces have been recorded and analysed. These are predominantly bronze or iron objects that were excavated from funerary contexts in urban (the main Roman cities of Veneto including Padua, Verona, Altino, Este) and rural cemeteries of Venetia. The textile traces include linen and wool fabrics of various qualities. This study provides new data regarding textile production and the funerary rituals, offering for the first time a picture of textiles produced in the area
Becker, J. A. (2021). Defining space, making the city: urbanism in Archaic Rome. In Gleba, Margarita. [Book Chapter]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.76140
No full textBecker, J. A. (2021). Defining space, making the city: urbanism in Archaic Rome. In Gleba, Margarita. [Book Chapter]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.7614
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