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Un tejido único Moche III del sitio Castillo de Santa: una escena de cosecha de yuca
Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2003 Archaeological fieldwork carried out in July 2002 on Terrace East at El Castillo site, Santa Valley, resulted in the discovery of a child burial wrapped in many textiles. One of them is unique. It represents a harvest scene of the plant identified as the
Claude Chapdelaine, Víctor Pimentel
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A report on the examination of animal skin artefacts from the Bronze Age salt mines of Hallstatt, Austria [PDF]
, 2006 The aim of this report is to describe the ten animal skin fragments and artefacts, and to discuss these in relation to the qualities and role of skins as a cloth technology in the Bronze Age. This includes the colour and texture, dimensions and thickness,
Harris, Susanna
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article investigates companionate processes of self‐making in a religious community of Catholic nuns in eastern Indonesia. I argue that the sociality of the convent establishes a unique context for understanding the effects of one's company on processes of self‐becoming.
Meghan Rose Donnelly
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Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2016 The Nasca area is the place of origin of innumerable archaeological examples that show the level of technical skill achieved by Prehispanic weavers. Although we now know much about the techniques involved in the manufacture of these items, however little
Viviana Siveroni, Anne Tiballi
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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But How Were They Made? More about Patterned Textiles in the Aegean Bronze Age
Fasciculi Archaeologiae Historicae, 2018 This paper scrutinises the iconography of patterned textiles in Bronze Age Greece as a potential source of technical knowledge of the patterning and weaving techniques.
Agata Ulanowska
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More items of funerary linen from the Deir el-Bahari burialassemblages [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2016 A corpus of funerary linen was found in the 2012/2013 season in one of the rock tombscut in the cliff bordering the Tuthmosis III temple platform in Deir el-Bahari during the work ofthe Polish–Egyptian Archaeological and Conservation Mission of the ...
Aleksandra Hallmann
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Amerika, 2015 This study propose to observe how the prehispanic textiles (that is to say, the fabrics produced by the people who live before the conquest and before the Spanish had arrived) can bring data about the societies who realized them.
Chloé Tessier
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The amazing Dr Kouznetsov [PDF]
, 2007 The author explores the career of creationist Dimitri Kouznetsov as an author in the field of archaeology. He highlights the articles written by Kouznetsov on conservation, creationism and textiles. Kouznetsov career in the field of archeology was marked
Meacham, W
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