The central issues discussed in this new collected work in the highly successful ancient textiles series are the relationships between fiber resources and availability on the one hand and the ways those resources were exploited to produce textiles on the other.
Technological and economic practices - for example, the strategies by which raw materials were acquired and prepared - in the production of textiles play a major role in the papers collected here.
Contributions investigate the.
Oxbow Books Limited The competition of fibres: early textile production in western asia, south-east and central europe (10,000-500bce), paperback/wolfram schier
