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Women’s work: The dedication of loom weights in the sanctuaries of southern Italy
Pallas, 2011 Loom weights are a common find in the sanctuaries of the ancient world. These small, portable, and inexpensive objects, however, are often marginalised in scholarship as merely remnants of weaving that took place at the site, or as low status dedications.
Alexandra Sofroniew
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A GROUP OF LOOM WEIGHTS FROM SYEDRA
Journal of Ancient History and ArchaeologyThis study examined 35 terracotta loom weights recovered during the excavations in the ancient city of Syedra, located in the Alanya district of Antalya. Humans have three basic needs to survive: Nutrition, shelter and clothing.
Makbule ERKAN, Akın TEMÜR
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EXARC Journal, 2020 Heavy, doughnut-shaped, loom weights made of refractory clay are often found in excavations of Roman and Late Roman settlements in North Piedmont. Unfortunately, they are not found in situ with a weaving loom.
Lorena Ariis
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Loom weights – a general typology of finds from Poland
Przegląd Archeologiczny, 2019 This article presents a proposal for the general classification of loom weights used as elements of the warp-weighted loom, which is the oldest and longest used tool for the production of fabrics.
Joanna Słomska
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Shape of Things: Understanding a Loom Weight
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 2009 If there is one thing to be learnt from watching people work in old traditional crafts it is this: The tools and the working procedures are never clumsy, never impractical (Hoffmann 1988) SummaryLoom weights are common finds in archaeological excavations in Europe and the Near East ...
Eva Andersson Strand
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Virtual Archaeology Review, 2010 A long-term systematic international excavation project has attested the existence of a wide range of past human activities in the emporion Pistiros. An assemblage of artefacts indicating the conduct of different economic activities on the site includes ...
Malgorzata Grzybalska
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Cercetări arheologice la Vitănești „Măgurice” (2009-2019) [PDF]
Cercetări Arheologice, 2022 The archaeological excavations at Vitănești “Măgurice” tell-settlement began in 1993 encompassed in a larger objective which targets learning the main characteristics of the neo-Eneolithic habitation in the Teleorman River area.
Radian-Romus Andreescu +4 more
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L’approche archéologique des vêtements et textiles préhistoriques. Enjeux et limites
Archéopages, 2023 Given the scarcity of textile remains and the lack of other iconographic or textual sources, we have decided to study them in terms of the tools used to make them.
Carole Cheval
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The textile industry at Krševica (Southeast Serbia) in the fourth-third centuries B.C. [PDF]
Starinar, 2006 The site of Kale at Krševica, with significant remains of a settlement dating to the late Classical and early Hellenistic periods, has yielded, in addition to other finds, more than a thousand loom weights, spindle whorls and spools of which 1038 pieces ...
Popović Petar, Vranić Ivan
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To pit the pig: The curious case of feature E63 at Tell Petko Karavelovo
Studia Praehistorica, 2022 This paper includes a detailed analysis of feature E63 at Tell Petko Karavelovo which is a pit excavated in 2021 measuring 0.83–0.87 m in diameter and 0.45 m in depth. Four different layers were identified in the fill.
Alexander Chohadzhiev +5 more
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