The Genesis of the Textile Industry from Adorned Nudity to Ritual Regalia: The Changing Role of Fibre Crafts and Their Evolving Techniques of Manufacture in the Ancient Near East from the Natufian to the Ghassulian
By (author) Janet Levy
Paperback (Published)
(April 2020)
ISBN: 9781789694482
8.07 x 11.42 inches
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This volume documents and evaluates the changing role of fibre crafts and their evolving techniques of manufacture and also their ever-increasing wider application in the lives of the inhabitants of the earliest villages of the Ancient Near East.
The Genesis of the Textile Industry from Adorned Nudity to Ritual Regalia documents and evaluates the changing role of fibre crafts and their evolving techniques of manufacture and also their ever-increasing wider application in the lives of the inhabitants of the earliest villages of the Ancient Near East. It is a broad-spectrum enquiry into fibre working in a broad swathe from Mesopotamia across Persia and Anatolia to the Nile Valley. It focuses, however, on the southern Levant from incipient sedentism in the Natufian culture, c. 13,000 cal BCE to the Ghassulian culture, c. 4500-3800/3700 cal BCE. This is the first comprehensive study addressing the fibre technologies of the southern Levant on a long chronological axis. Currently, fibre crafts play only a minor role in archaeological thinking. This research demonstrates the magnitude and also the indispensable role that fibre crafts have played in the quotidian events, activities and practices of the inhabitants of the region. It has created an awareness of the substantial, often invisible, presence of fibre-craft products which was hitherto lacking in archaeological thought.
List of Figures ;
List of Tables ;
Abstract ;
Chapter 1: Objective, Methodology, Geography, History of Research ;
Chapter 2: The Natufian ;
Chapter 3: The Pre-pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) ;
Chapter 4: The Pre-pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) ;
Chapter 5: The Pottery Neolithic (PN) ;
Chapter 6: The Chalcolithic ;
Chapter 7: Discussion and conclusions ;
Bibliography ;
Appendix A: The Basics of Fibre Technologies ;
Appendix B: Experiments ;
Appendix C ;
Appendix D
- By (author) Janet Levy
'This is a book of evidence. Levy has the tenacity of a bulldog in pursuing and dragging in every possible form of evidence for a very elusive subject that has been central to human existence for many millennia.'
— E.J.W. Barber
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