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Le site rural de Mezraya (Jerba) de la Protohistoire à l’époque romaine impériale : résultats de la première campagne de fouilles préventives de 2018

open access: yesAntiquités Africaines, 2021
The rural site of Mezraya (Jerba), which was the subject of a rescue excavation in 2018, has revealed a range of interesting archaeological results. The stratigraphy documents continuous use and occupation of the site from protohistoric to Roman times ...
Sami Ben Tahar   +4 more
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The Late Bronze Age settlement site of Březnice: Magnetometer survey data

open access: yesData in Brief, 2021
The archaeological site of Březnice (Czechia) represents one of the large settlements of the Late Bronze Age (Ha A2/B1, 14C: 1124–976 BC) in Bohemia. The site became known mainly for a high number of so-called ‘trenches’, oblong pit features (breadth ...
Martin Kuna   +3 more
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Loom weights – a general typology of finds from Poland

open access: yesPrzegląd 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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Textile Production in Central Anatolia between the 2nd and the 1st Millennium BC: Analysis of Tools and Contexts

open access: yesAsia Anteriore Antica, 2020
This study deals with tools linked to textile production in central Anatolia in the transition period between the 2nd and the 1st millennium BC. It is a critical phase which begins with the crisis and collapse of Hittite Empire and which is characterized
Alice Bonacchi
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Early Medieval Looms in Poland in the Light of Archaeological Finds

open access: yesFasciculi Archaeologiae Historicae, 2018
The purpose of the paper is to present types of looms used in Poland in the Early Middle Ages in the light of archaeological finds. The basis for the source form parts of looms like loom weights and weaving tools. The authors present evidence discovered
Łukasz Antosik, Joanna Słomska
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Experimental Weaving and Twining with Ceramic Crescents from the Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic in Southwestern Iberia

open access: yesEXARC Journal, 2023
Ceramic crescents are a common find at Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic sites in southwestern Iberia (late fourth – third millennium BC). These objects, which often weigh less than 100 g and are perforated on each end, are typically referred to as loom ...
Victoria Priola
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Organisation of Textile Production in the Settlement of the Lusatian Culture at Ruda, Grudziądz Commune

open access: yesFasciculi Archaeologiae Historicae, 2018
The subject of this article is the organisation of textile production in the settlement of the Lusatian Culture in the village of Ruda, Grudziądz Commune, Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship. The discovery of 63 spindle whorls and their fragments, as well as
Magdalena Przymorska-Sztuczka
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Just how practical is it to Move a Warp-weighted Loom from between the Interior and Exterior of a Roundhouse?

open access: yesEXARC Journal, 2021
An experimental programme at Butser Ancient Farm run between 2015 and 2017 was to investigate weaving within a roundhouse on a warp-weighted loom. Part of these investigations was an examination into the feasibility of moving the loom in and out of the ...
Helen Poulter
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More Testing of Mesoamerican Lunate Artifacts as Possible Loom Weights, that also Functioned as Twining Tools

open access: yesEXARC Journal, 2021
In previous replication studies and experiments, a lunate jade artifact from the Pre-Classic/Formative period (1500 BC-AD 250) of Mesoamerica was analysed, researched, and tested for its similarities to the crescent weight, a specialized type of loom ...
Billie J. A. Follensbee
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Application of GIS techniques to analysis of spatial distribution patterns of loom-weights, spindle-whorls and tokens at Pistiros, ancient Thrace, within a domestic/urban context

open access: yesVirtual 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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