the douzlakh salt mine at chehr abad, zanjan province, iran has provided a rare organic preservation of human remains, and associated cloth and clothing. this textile evidence offers a window into a poorly known but pivotal era of textile history. moreover, the context is of accidental burial of miners at work, rather than deliberate burial of elites. at least six bodies have been recovered, on...

of the many diverse arts that flourished during the third millennium bc, textiles played an especiallysignificant role in society. archaeological textiles offer an important source of material cultural testimony fordaily life in ancient times- relating simultaneously to agriculture, pastoralism, trade, migration, ritual, and soforth as well as to craft technologies. the study of the techniques ...

Of the many diverse arts that flourished during the third millennium BC, textiles played an especiallysignificant role in society. Archaeological textiles offer an important source of material cultural testimony fordaily life in ancient times- relating simultaneously to agriculture, pastoralism, trade, migration, ritual, and soforth as well as to craft technologies. The study of the techniques ...

We investigate the origin of archaeological wool textiles preserved by anoxic waterlogging from seven medieval archaeological deposits in north-western Europe (c. 700-1600 AD), using geospatial patterning in carbon (δ13C), nitrogen (δ15N) and non-exchangeable hydrogen (δ2H) composition of modern and ancient sheep proteins. δ13C, δ15N and δ2H values from archaeological wool keratin (n = 83) and ...

Textiles formed a major part of any ancient Mesoamerican economy. Based on ethnohistory and iconography, the Maya were great producers of cloth for both internal and external use. However, the archaeological identification of textile production is difficult in any tropical area because of issues of preservation. This paper examines the evidence for the production and distribution of cloth that ...

Textiles formed a major part of any ancient Mesoamerican economy. Based on ethnohistory and iconography, the Maya were great producers of cloth for both internal and external use. However, the archaeological identification of textile production is difficult in any tropical area because of issues of preservation. This paper examines the evidence for the production and distribution of cloth that ...

Pachacamac was considered a sanctuary or oracle by several of the pre-Columbian Andean cultures. As a pilgrimage destination, the site was rich in archaeological artifacts and yielded also many well preserved textiles. Some of the objects found at Pachacamac are considered offerings by the pilgrims to their Gods, and the majority are assumed to be of nonlocal origin. Others are from the Ychsma ...

riographic project in a volume celebrating the work of Thomas F. Mathews, who, as my teacher and mentor, set me on the path of an intellectual adventure that never fails to surprise.1 At the center of this study is a set of Late Antique Egyptian textiles assembled in an album for Dikran Ga rabed Kelekian (1868–1951), an influential collector and art dealer who was a source of historic and archa...