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Prehistoric, ancient Near Eastern and Aegean textiles and dress : an interdisciplinary anthology /

Textile and dress production, from raw materials to finished items, has had a significant impact on society from its earliest history. The essays in this volume offer a fresh insight into the emerging interdisciplinary research field of textile and dress studies by discussing archaeological, iconogr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Harlow, Mary, 1956- (Editor ), Michel, Cécile (Editor ), Nosch, Marie-Louise (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2014.
Colección:Ancient textiles series ; 18.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Investigating Neolithic and Copper Age textile production in Transylvania (Romania) : applied methods and results / Paula Mazare
  • Spindle whorls from two prehistoric settlements on Thassos, north Aegean / Sophia Vakirtzi, Chaido Koukouli-Chryssanthaki and Stratis Papadopoulos
  • Textiles texts of the Lagash II period / Richard Firth
  • Searching for lost costumes : a few remarks about the royal costume in ancient Mesopotamia focusing on the Amorite kingdom of Mari / Ariane Thomas
  • Elements for a comparative study of textile production and consumption in the Hittite Anatolia and its neighbours / Matteo Vigo, Giulia Baccelli and Benedetta Bellucci
  • Buttons, pins, clips and belts : inconspicuous dress accessories from the burial context of the Mycenaean period (16th-12th cent. BC) / Eleni Konstantinidi-Syvridi
  • Textile semitic loanwords in Mycenaean as Wanderwörter / Valentina Gasbarra
  • Constructing masculinities through textile production in the ancient Near East / Agnès Garcia-Ventura
  • Spindles and distaffs : late Bronze and early Iron Age eastern Mediterranean use of solid and tapered ivory/bone shafts / Caroline Sauvage
  • Golden decorations in Assyrian textiles : an interdisciplinary approach / Salvatore Gaspa
  • Erita's dress : contribution to the study of the Mycenaean priestesses' attire / Tina Boloti
  • Flax and linen in the first millennium Babylonia BCE : origins, craft industry and uses of a remarkable textile / Louise Quillien
  • Special traditions in Jewish garments and the rarity of mixing wool and linen threads in the same textile in the Jewish tradition / Orit Shamir.