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Opium trade and use during the Late Bronze Age: Organic residue analysis of ceramic vessels from the burials of Tel Yehud, Israel

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract Organic residue analysis was conducted on various vessels from burials at Tel Yehud, Israel. The analyses led to new reliable evidence for the presence of opioid alkaloids and their decomposition products. This research revitalizes a decades‐old discussion on the presence and function of the opium trade across a cultural region of utmost ...
Vanessa Linares   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Étudier les motifs vestimentaires en Grèce Ancienne. Méthodologie et enjeux

open access: yesLes Cahiers de l'École du Louvre, 2022
Because of the Greek climate, few textile fibres of animal or vegetable origin have survived. The absence of significant archaeological evidence makes it difficult to study the appearance of ancient clothing.
Quentin Richard
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An Analysis of the Style of Male Caftans And Female Dresses of the Alans from the North Caucasus

open access: yesПоволжская археология, 2017
The article considers the variation in the style of clothing of the Alans populating the territory of the North Caucasus in 8th – 13th centuries. An analysis of pattern drawings allowed the author to assume that the style of Alan clothing was based on ...
Orfinskaya Olga V.
doaj   +1 more source

Bronze Age Textiles: A Preliminary Analysis of Fragments Discovered at Tepe Dasht, Sistan [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Journal of Archaeological Studies, 2011
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 ...
Mehdi Mortazavi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Archaeological textiles excavated at Rayy [PDF]

open access: yesTechniques & culture, 2000
Pendant The Joint Expedition to Persia (1931-1936), plus de 200 fragments de tissus furent exhumes a Rayy par E. F. Schmidt dans des sites de la periode islamique. Aujourd'hui conserve dans le departement du costume et des textiles au Philadelphia Museum of Art, ce groupe de tissus, principalement en soie et en coton, presente une interessante ...
openaire   +1 more source

Clothing the Elite? Patterns of Textile Production and Consumption in Ancient Sudan and Nubia

open access: yesFasciculi Archaeologiae Historicae, 2018
The Kingdom of Meroe (300 BCE-350 CE) developed a truly unique textile tradition, represented by hundreds of preserved fabrics, tools and iconographic representations.
Elsa Yvanez
doaj   +1 more source

Mineralisation of ancient textiles: An archaeometric analysis of Etruscan textile fragments from the tombs of Perugia. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
openAncient textiles do not appear often in the archaeological record, and when they do they might have undergone chemical alteration, allowing them to survive through time.
SCHUURMAN, NINA JANSKE
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The sensory archaeology of textiles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Textiles are sensuous; we respond to them through touch, vision and smell, movement, sound and temperature. Through sensations, textiles embody emotions of identity, and define hierarchies of power and value. Yet through the taphonomy of decay, ancient textiles are frequently devoid of their original sensory properties, they come to us as faded ...
openaire   +1 more source

Remote Roca: Integrating Data From Archaeological Survey, Remote Sensing and Geophysics in the Hinterland at the Long‐Lasting Mediterranean Site of Rocavecchia (Apulia, Italy)

open access: yesArchaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a multi‐method non‐invasive investigation of an approximately 4‐ha area associated with the long‐occupied coastal settlement of Rocavecchia (Apulia, southern Italy), situated between the prehistoric fortified peninsula and the Hellenistic‐Messapian walls.
Giuseppe Guarino   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Research methods for heritage cotton fibres: case studies from archaeological and historical finds in a Finnish context

open access: yesHeritage Science, 2023
Cotton (Gossypium species) was used as textile fibre already in the early Indus culture, and since then it has been cultivated in Tropical and Subtropical regions around the whole planet. The species G.
Jenni A. Suomela   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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