Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with Special Reference to the Aegean
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Book Overview
This pioneering work revises our notions of the origins and early development of textiles in Europe and the Near East. Using innovative linguistic techniques, along with methods from palaeobiology and other fields, it shows that spinning and pattern weaving began far earlier than has been supposed. Prehistoric Textiles made an unsurpassed leap in the social and cultural understanding of textiles in humankind's early history. Cloth making was an industry...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0691035970
ISBN13:9780691035970
Release Date:March 1991
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Length:508 Pages
Weight:2.90 lbs.
Dimensions:1.6" x 7.0" x 10.0"
Customer Reviews
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Fascinating
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
E.J.W. Barber pieces together the overlooked archaeological evidence relating to prehistoric textiles in a comprehensive and compelling way in her book, Prehistoric Textiles. Not only does this book provide an excellent education about textiles from this era, but one can also glean so much about human existence during this period when we understand the relationship that people of this time had with textiles. A fascinating and thoroughly entertaining read!
don't be put off by this books phd look
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
this book is another attempt to help us accept the fact that the peoples living before 4000BC where not cave-dwelling morons as most archeologist think, mrs barbers incredibly well researched book takes us on a discovery that ends too soon and makes us hope she will follow up with a book on the rest of the world....
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