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Testing Mesoamerican Lunate Artifacts as Possible Crescent Loom Weights
EXARC Journal, 2020 While the importance of textiles in Mesoamerica from the Classic period (AD 250-900) onward is well-recognized, scholars have conducted little exploration of earlier Mesoamerican textile production.
Billie J. A. Follensbee
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Understanding the Archaeological Record: Reconstructing a Warp-Weighted Loom
EXARC Journal, 2018 The paper deals with a reconstruction of a warp-weighted loom based on a rare find of 36 in situ loom weights in an object interpreted as a weaving hut at an archaeological site Virje-Sušine in Northern Croatia dated in late Iron Age (La Tène C period, 2/
Tena Karavidović +1 more
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EXARC 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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Loom weights as a research tool
BAF-Online: Proceedings of the Berner Altorientalisches ForumThe function of loom weights was to stretch and space the warp threads on a vertical loom. The loom weight is often the only preserved remnant of a loom used in antiquity. Because of their ubiquity, loom weights are the main key to the study of textile production in the Iron Age in the Levant.During excavations loom weights are easy to recognize if ...
Boertien, Jeannette
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EXARC 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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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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Loom weights and weaving craft in Viminacium [PDF]
Textiles were invaluable in most past societies and were widely used, from clothing to other everyday items. An increase in the textile production was recorded in the Roman period, when fabrics were made not only in households, but also in numerous workshops, in order to meet the needs.
Marjanović, Milica, Danković, Ilija
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The Late Bronze Age settlement site of Březnice: Magnetometer survey data
Data 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
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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Asia 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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