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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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‘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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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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, 2009 This thesis is one outcome of research aimed to raise the awareness of textiles excavated in Greece.The inherently sensitive nature of excavated textiles accounts for the rarity and poor condition of thefinds, making them more often than not ...
Margariti, Christina
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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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Textiles burning: Understanding charred textiles from cremation graves through experimental charring
, 2023 Traditionally, textile remains found in cremation graves are interpreted as subsequent wrapping, even if they are associated with burnt and deformed metal objects. Although this may often be the case, we want to postulate another possibility based on the
Margarita Gleba +2 more
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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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Between the Indian Ocean and the Gulf: Ceramics From Ḥattā Oasis in the Emirate of Dubai
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study presents the ceramic finds from archaeological investigations conducted in 2024 at two settlements: ‘Islamic Village' and Suhaila 2, one of a number of mountain villages of the Late Islamic period within the Ḥattā Oasis: a high‐altitude exclave in the Emirate of Dubai. The sites are located on the northeastern slopes of Jabal Qallāt
Seth M. N. Priestman +3 more
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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research of North and Central European Archaeological Textiles. The Proceedings of the North European Symposium for Archeological Textiles (23rd–26th August 2021 in Oulu). [PDF]
A woman’s grave rich in textiles and likely dated to the early 13th century was found in 2016 at Ravattula Ristimäki cemetery in southwestern Finland. Fragments of woollen textiles woven in 2/2 twill revealed a new type of dress compared with previously ...
Riikonen Jaana +3 more
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Antimicrobial properties of silver nanoparticles against biofilm formation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa on archaeological textiles [PDF]
, 2020 The aims of this work were to: (i) microscopically analyse the pre- and post-Columbian archaeological textiles using Scanning Electron Microscopy with Energy Dispersive X-Ray Analysis (SEM-EDX); (ii) microbiologically analyse the archaeological textiles (
Pietrzak, Katarzyna +4 more
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