Sheep wool in Bronze Age and Iron Age Europe

Rast-Eicher, Antoinette; Jørgensen, Lise Bender

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2012.09.030

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“…Similarly, the lack of spindle whorls in Scandinavia suggests that the employment of a different technology may explain why Scandinavian yarns are coarser and less even. The wool, too, is comparable to wools from Central Europe, yet different from Scandinavian wools (Rast-Eicher & Bender Jørgensen 2013). Finally, the Pustopolje textile is among the earliest, known examples of dyed textiles in Europe, and offers an enticing glimpse of Bronze Age textile colours other than those available from the various shades of naturally pigmented wool.…”

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confidence: 79%

“…All showed the same type of wool, where very fine fibres were combined with very coarse ones (Figure 4). This kind of wool is typical of the Bronze Age, although most other finds show evidence of wool sorting (Rast-Eicher & Bender Jørgensen 2013). The coarse fibres (kemp) range around (or over) 100μm in diameter.…”

Section: Woolmentioning

confidence: 83%

“…Wool analysis and measurements have been carried out by Antoinette Rast-Eicher of ArcheoTex on four samples from the Pustopolje textile (Rast-Eicher & Bender Jørgensen 2013). All showed the same type of wool, where very fine fibres were combined with very coarse ones (Figure 4).…”

Section: Woolmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Missing link: an early wool textile from Pustopolje in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Grömer¹,

Jørgensen

Baković³

2018

Antiquity

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Missing link: an early wool textile from Pustopolje in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Grömer¹,

Jørgensen

Baković³

2018

Antiquity

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“…As in the past, the value of modern wool is grossly related to fiber diameter (finer fibers produce finer yarn), and to a lesser extend to other factors such as staple strength and length, crimp (waviness), and color. Changes in the types and qualities of wool available at different periods in different regions have been recorded both by historians researching documentary sources [73][74] and by archaeologists working on the excavated textiles [75][76] using the distribution of fiber diameters to classify medieval wool into seven different fleece types [77].…”

Section: Proteome Characterization Of Sheep Woolmentioning

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Characterizing historical textiles and clothing with proteomics

Solazzo

2019

Cons. Património

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This paper is a review of proteomics and mass spectrometric techniques used for the study of historical textiles and garments. First applied on archaeological animal fibers over a decade ago, proteomics has made important contributions to the analysis of ancient proteins and to cultural heritage studies. The field of proteomics has the potential to give a better understanding of the modes of fabrication of ancient textiles, their composition and pathways of degradation, as well as the development of animal fibers through domestication and breeding. This review summarizes current analytical methods, describes the different sources of animal fibers and their biomolecular characteristics and methods of analysis, and finally presents the main applications of proteomics to historical clothing.

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“…So far, wool is also the only fiber that has been identified from the Early Bronze Age in Denmark (Bender Jørgensen 1986: 24 and catalog). There seems to have been only one kind of wool, of Soay type (Rast-Eicher andBender Jørgensen 2012: 1233-4). There is no evidence that the Early Bronze Age textiles were dyed (Staermose Nielsen 1989: 57).…”

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Creativity and Corded Skirts from Bronze Age Scandinavia

Fossøy

Bergerbrant²

2013

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a Sølvi Helene Fossøy finished her master's degree at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Spring 2012. She investigated Scandinavian Bronze Age textiles, focusing on transmission of handicraft. b Sophie Bergerbrant completed her doctoral thesis in archaeology in 2007 at the University of Stockholm. Her research specialty is the costume of Bronze Age Europe. She currently holds a postdoctoral position. in Spring 2012. She investigated Scandinavian Bronze Age textiles, focusing on transmission of handicraft. Sophie Bergerbrant completed her doctoral thesis in archaeology in 2007 at the University of Stockholm. Her research specialty is the costume of Bronze Age Europe. She currently holds a postdoctoral position. AbstractT his article will present new data on corded skirts from Bronze Age Scandinavia, providing an opportunity to discuss variation within this clothing type and creativity in its production. In the past this has mainly been considered based on the fully preserved skirt found in the oak-log coffin burial from Egtved, Denmark. This article includes the evidence of less well-preserved corded skirts to show that there is much more variation than previously thought in the way they were created. It is argued that this was an arena in which prehistoric textile craftspeople might show off their creativity.

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Sheep wool in Bronze Age and Iron Age Europe

Cited by 37 publications

References 12 publications

Missing link: an early wool textile from Pustopolje in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Missing link: an early wool textile from Pustopolje in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Characterizing historical textiles and clothing with proteomics

Creativity and Corded Skirts from Bronze Age Scandinavia

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