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Zephyrus, 2013 In this paper, we try to assess the importance of textile production in the societies of the Bronze Age in the Eastern Iberian Peninsula. We have tried to characterize each of the crafts, weaving textiles, cordage and basketry, mainly.
Francisco Javier JOVER MAESTRE +1 more
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Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2008 Cotton plants, belonging to several species of the Gossypium genus, have attracted the attention of Old World populations since the Neolithic because of the fibres that are attached to their seeds.
Margareta Tengberg +1 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
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Revue d'ethnoécologie, 2019 Textile use of the cotton fibres from the Old World species Gossypium arboreum (Tree Cotton) and G. herbaceum (Levant Cotton) started around eight thousand years ago and possibly earlier. During the third millennium before the present, cotton cultivation,
Christopher Viot
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Journal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.Abstract Despite growing public awareness and political attention, the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two‐Spirit People (MMIWG2+) in Canada and the United States remains unresolved. Indigenous families continue to report that the disappearances and deaths of their loved ones are investigated inadequately and without ...
Steff King +2 more
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Un fardo funerario del Horizonte Tardío del sitio Rinconada Alta, valle del Rímac
Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2004 This article documents the unwrapping of a coastal fardo dating to the Inca period. The fardo, excavated at Rinconada Alta in the Rimac Valley, is particularly rich in garments and textile accessories, and provides the opportunity for examining the suite
Mary Frame +3 more
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‘Nothing like Textiles’: Manufacturing Traditions in Textile Archaeology
Światowit, 2019 Textiles are evaluated mainly in regard to their visual appearance and technical features of textile production. From a modern point of view, it is their optical perception that is most often displayed in reconstructions. This, however, can rarely be achieved due to the poor and fragmentary preservation of archaeological textiles, which hinders ...
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Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 2019, the Dadan Archaeological Project (CNRS/RCU/AFALULA) identified a Late Antique village 1 km south of ancient Dadan in the al‐ʿUlā valley (northwest Saudi Arabia). Three excavation seasons at this site (2021–2023) have uncovered a massive building constructed in the late third or early fourth cent.
Jérôme Rohmer +11 more
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Exploring the potential of the strontium isotope tracing system in Denmark
Danish Journal of Archaeology, 2012 Migration and trade are issues important to the understanding of ancient cultures. There are many ways in which these topics can be investigated. This article provides an overview of a method based on an archaeological scientific methodology developed ...
Karin Margarita Frei
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New Results From the Pre‐Pottery Neolithic Site of Al Uyaynah, Tabuk, in Northwestern Saudi Arabia
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Al Uyaynah is a low sandstone mound on an alluvial plain, long known for its extensive surface remains of stone‐built circular and rectangular structures. Following test excavations in 2012, more detailed excavation was undertaken in 2016 within one of the largest rectangular stone structures.
Khalid Alasmari +6 more
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