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Bronze Age Textiles

Men, Women and Wealth
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Description

In the ancient civilizations of the Eastern
Mediterranean, textiles were generally much more costly than foodstuffs,
animals or bronzes; it is very likely that the same was the case throughout
prehistoric Europe. In this study, the first
for over seventy years, Klavs Randsborg examines completely preserved woollen
dresses, both female and male, from Danish oak coffin graves of the early
second millennium BC. These garments, matched in age and superb preservation
only by finds from Ancient Egypt, along with related artefacts such as images
and figurines, are used to build up a rich picture of Bronze Age society and
culture in the context of archaeological, ethnographical and historical
information from Europe and beyond.

Product Details

PublisherBristol Classical Press
Publish DateMay 05, 2011
Pages176
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9780715640784
Dimensions8.4 X 5.3 X 0.5 inches | 0.5 pounds

About the Author

Klavs Randsborg is Professor of World Archaeology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research covers the Scandinavian, European and Mediterranean Neolithic, the Bronze and Iron Ages, Classical and Near Eastern Antiquity, the Roman Period, the Migration Period, the Viking Age and the Early Middle Ages as well as African archaeology and Global topics. He is a member of the permanent council of UNESCO.
Richard Hodges OBE is Emeritus President of The American University of Rome, Italy. He is the editor of the Debates in Archaeology series; and his publications include Dark Age Economics (2012), The Anglo-Saxon Achievement (1991), Towns and Trade in the Age of Charlemagne (2000), Goodbye to the Vikings (2006) and (as co-author) Villa to Village (2003), all published by Bloomsbury Academic. He has previously been Director of Archaeology for the Butrint Foundation, Albania, and Director of the Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, USA.

Reviews

"[T]he book accomplishes what it sets out to do, which is to start the debate on the economic and social importance of textiles during prehistory that goes outside the specialist realm." --Magarita Gleba, University College London, The Historian

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