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Textile Workers. Skills, Labour and Status of Textile Craftspeople Between the Prehistoric Aegean and the Ancient Near East

Oriental and European Archaeology Volume 13

Textile Workers. Skills, Labour and Status of Textile Craftspeople Between the Prehistoric Aegean and the Ancient Near East

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ISBN-13978-3-7001-8138-5
ISBN-13 Online978-3-7001-8413-0
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Preliminaries

1

Contents

7

Barbara Horejs

Preface by the Series Editor

9

Louise Quillien, Kalliope Sarri

Introduction

11

Kalliope Sarri

In the Minds of Early Weavers: Perceptions of Geometry, Metrology and Value in the Neolithic Aegean

17

Małgorzata Siennicka

Craftspeople, Craftsmanship and Textile Production in Early Bronze Age Greece

27

Luca Peyronel

Mediterranean Interconnections: Weaving Technologies during the Middle Bronze Age

45

Karina Grömer, Abolfazl Aali

How to Make a Sassanian Tunic: Understanding Handcraft Skills based on a Find from the Salt Mine in Chehrābād, Iran

59

Christopher Britsch, Barbara Horejs

Agencies of Textile Production in Western Anatolian and Aegean Prehistory

75

Marie-Louise Nosch

How to Become a Textile Worker? Training and Apprenticeship of Child Labourers in the Bronze Age

91

Agata Ulanowska

Contemporary Actors and Bronze Age Textile Techniques from Greece: Experience Approach to Textile Work, its Specialisation and Apprenticeship

109

Cécile Michel

Textile Workers in the Royal Archives of Mari (Syria, 18th Century BC)

127

Aline Tenu

Textile Tools, Significant Markers of Gender? The Case of the Cremation Cemetery Tell Shiukh Fawqâni (Syria)

139

Louise Quillien

Insights into the Professional Life of a Dyer’s Family from Sippar across the 6th Century BC

149

Index

161