Description Textile production and the manufacture of clothing was one of the most essential daily activities in prehistory.
Textiles were significant objects of practical use, and at the same time had cultural, social and symbolic meaning, crucial for displaying the identity, gender, social rank and status, or wealth of their users.
However, evidence of ancient clothing is scarce due to unfavourable preservation of organic materials.
Only occasionally are prehistoric textiles an.
Oxbow Books Limited First textiles: the beginnings of textile manufacture in europe and the mediterranean, hardcover/malgorzata siennicka
