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From Minos to Midas : ancient cloth production in the Aegean and in Anatolia /
Textile production was of greater value and importance to people in the past than any other social craft activity: everyone depended on cloth. As with other craft goods, such as pottery, metal objects, or ivory carving, the large-scale production and exchange of textiles required specialization and...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; Oakville :
Oxbow Books,
©2010.
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| Series: | Ancient textiles series ;
7. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Textile production was of greater value and importance to people in the past than any other social craft activity: everyone depended on cloth. As with other craft goods, such as pottery, metal objects, or ivory carving, the large-scale production and exchange of textiles required specialization and some degree of centralization. This book takes an explicitly economic approach to textile production, focusing on regional centers, most often referred to as palaces, to understand the means by which states in the Aegean and Anatolia financed themselves through cloth industries. From this we can loo. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 206 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1842177737 9781842177730 1842177710 9781842177716 1299485103 9781299485105 |