{"product_id":"textiles-and-textile-production-in-europe-book-margarita-gleba-9781842174630","title":"Textiles and Textile Production in Europe","description":"There is evidence that ever since early prehistory, textiles  have always had more than simply a utilitarian function. Textiles  express who we are - our gender, age, family affiliation,  occupation, religion, ethnicity and social, political, economic  and legal status. Besides expressing our identity, textiles  protect us from the harsh conditions of the environment, whether  as clothes or shelter. We use them at birth for swaddling, in  illness as bandages and at death as shrouds. We use them to carry  and contain people and things. We use them for subsistence to  catch fish and animals and for transport as sails. In fact,  textiles represent one of the earliest human craft technologies  and they have always been a fundamental part of subsistence,  economy and exchange. Textiles have an enormous potential in  archaeological research to inform us of social, chronological and  cultural aspects of ancient societies. In archaeology, the study of textiles is often relegated to the  marginalised zone of specialist and specialised subject and lack  of dialogue between textile researchers and scholars in other  fields means that as a resource, textiles are not used to their  full potential or integrated into the overall interpretation of a  particular site or broader aspects of human activity.   Textiles and Textile Production in Europe  is a major new survey that aims to redress this. Twenty-three chapters collect and systematise  essential information on textiles and textile production from  sixteen European countries, resulting in an up-to-date and  detailed sourcebook and an easily accessible overview of the  development of European textile technology and economy from  prehistory to AD 400. All chapters have an introduction, give the chronological and  cultural background and an overview of the material in question  organised chronologically and thematically. The sources of  information used by the authors are primarily textiles and  textile tools recovered from archaeological contexts. In  addition, other evidence for the study of ancient textile  production, ranging from iconography to written sources to  palaeobotanical and archaeozoological remains are included. The  introduction gives a summary on textile preservation, analytical  techniques and production sequence that provides a background for  the terminology and issues discussed in the various chapters.  Extensively illustrated, with over 200 colour illustrations,  maps, chronologies and index, this will be an essential  sourcebook not just for textile researchers but also the wider  archaeological community.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53182786961681,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53182787322129,"sku":"GOR006889379","price":156.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781842174630.jpg?v=1772273704","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/textiles-and-textile-production-in-europe-book-margarita-gleba-9781842174630","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}