Craft Production: Ceramics, Textiles, and Bone

Sofaer, Joanna; Jørgensen, Lise Bender; Choyke, Alice M.

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199572861.013.0026

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“…Textile production involves a long series of time-consuming processes, starting with the procurement and preparation of the raw materials, followed by spinning and weaving. Textiles, therefore, represent a complex châine opératoire, including different steps that might vary depending on the final product (Andersson Strand 2012;Sofaer et al 2013).…”

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Bronze Age wool: provenance and dye investigations of Danish textiles

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“…Textiles, therefore, represent a complex châine opératoire , including different steps that might vary depending on the final product (Andersson Strand 2012; Sofaer et al . 2013).…”

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Bronze Age wool: provenance and dye investigations of Danish textiles

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“…In addition, strontium isotope analyses of woollen clothing from several 14th century bc oak-log coffin graves (Denmark) document that most preserved textiles from these elite contexts were made with non-local wool (Frei et al 2015; 2017). Considering that no convincing archaeological evidence exists for textile manufacture in Bronze Age Scandinavia (eg, Bergerbrant 2007, 49; forthcoming; Sofaer et al 2013, 480), and in disagreement with earlier proposals suggesting that wool might have been a Nordic export (eg, Randsborg 2011, 110), those isotopic analyses hint at the existence of a continental Bronze Age trade providing wool to the north. The archaeological evidence from the Bronze Age Po valley in northern Italy, as presented in this paper, represents a convincing case that, during the 2nd millennium bc , wool economies emerged and developed beyond the coastal region of the Mediterranean to supply continental demand.…”

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Bronze Age Textile & Wool Economy: The Case of the Terramare Site of Montale, Italy

Sabatini

Earle

Cardarelli

2018

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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At the onset of the 2nd millennium bc, a wool economy emerged across continental Europe. Archaeological, iconographical, and written sources from the Near East and the Aegean show that a Bronze Age wool economy involved considerable specialised labour and large scale animal husbandry. Resting only on archaeological evidence, detailed knowledge of wool economies in Bronze Age Europe has been limited, but recent investigations at the Terramare site of Montale, in northern Italy, document a high density of spindle whorls that strongly supports the existence of village-level specialised manufacture of yarn. Production does not appear to have been attached to an emerging elite nor was it fully independent of social constraints. We propose that, although probably managed by local elites, wool production was a community-based endeavour oriented towards exports aimed at obtaining locally unavailable raw materials and goods.

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“…In the other locations of occurrence, we are inclined to assume individual forms of production for personal use or for the needs of the local community. Similar variants of organization are also considered in the context of other Bronze Age settlements (Belanová Štolcová & Grömer 2010, 17–18; Sofaer et al 2013, 481; Šteiner 2015).…”

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Some Are More Equal Than Others: Intrasettlement Social Organization in Spišský Štvrtok (EBA/MBA, Slovakia)

Oravkinová¹,

Vladár²

2020

CAJ

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Heterarchical or hierarchical? Egalitarian or unequal? Segmented or complex? Tribe, chiefdom, middle range? All these questions have been vividly discussed in an effort to reconstruct Bronze Age society within a wider area of central Europe. The extensive spectrum of published literature offers varied and often contradictory theoretical models, but we still know very little about the organization of particular social units, especially in the context of settlements. The morphological, technological and spatial analysis of movable and immovable sources from the fortified settlement in Spišský Štvrtok contributes in many respects to solution of the discussed problem in the northeastern Carpathian region. In the case of the Spišský Štvrtok locality, we can interpret the degree of social complexity on the basis of qualitative and quantitative parameters of material culture, evidence of production activities and their specialization level in correlation with spatial distribution of intra-site activity areas. Moreover, the detected tendencies are independently confirmed by the morpho-typological differences between gold and bronze artefacts contained in hoards, by architectonic details and by the presence of regular ritual activities. The achieved results thus indicate possible horizontal and vertical ranking, which was adapted to the local community.

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Craft Production: Ceramics, Textiles, and Bone

Cited by 11 publications

References 11 publications

Bronze Age wool: provenance and dye investigations of Danish textiles

Bronze Age wool: provenance and dye investigations of Danish textiles

Bronze Age Textile & Wool Economy: The Case of the Terramare Site of Montale, Italy

Some Are More Equal Than Others: Intrasettlement Social Organization in Spišský Štvrtok (EBA/MBA, Slovakia)

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