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Spindle Whorls with Signs from Sites of the Ryazan-Oka Culture of the Middle of the First Millennium A. D. (Cultural and Historical Context)

GRAPHOSPHAERA Writing and Written Practices
The paper introduces four spindle whorls with various ornamental signs from the sites of the Ryazan-Oka archaeological culture. As archaeologists have long established, spindle whorls were undoubtedly part of the technological complex of weaving ...
Alexander P. Gavrilov
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DECORATED SPINDLE WHORLS FROM MIDDLE HORIZON PATARAYA

Ñawpa Pacha, 2008
The production of cloth, even to meet a community’s most basic needs, is one of the most time-consuming activities in non-industrial societies. This would have been all the more true of the beautiful textile arts of the Andean Middle Horizon. This paper presents data on a common artifact class related to textile manufacture, spindle whorls, recovered ...
Matthew James Edwards, Francesca Fernandini Parodi, Grace Alexandrino Ocaña   +2 more
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An Inscribed Spindle Whorl

2012
This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by ...
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Chalcolithic Bone Spindle Whorls in Bulgaria: Finds from the “Tilkiyuk” Settlement Mound (Sadievo, Southeastern Bulgaria)

Epohi, 2023

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NEW FRAMES OF ARCHAEOMETRICAL DESCRIPTION OF SPINDLE WHORLS: A CASE STUDY OF THE LATE ENEOLITHIC SPINDLE WHORLS FROM THE 1C SITE IN GRÓDEK, DISTRICT OF HRUBIESZÓW, POLAND

Archaeometry, 2010
The essential role of yarn spinning in textile production is indisputable. In this context, spindle whorls, the basic spinning accessories that can be found in the archaeological record, are commonly discussed. Even though the importance of the technical specification of spindle whorls has been already recognized by some authors, their functional ...
T. CHMIELEWSKI, L. GARDYŃSKI
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Spindle Whorls, Gender, and Ethnicity at Late Chalcolithic Hacinebi Tepe

Journal of Field Archaeology, 1998
Abstract Hacinebi Tepe, a small site along the Euphrates River in southern Turkey, has two major phases of occupation during the Late Chalcolithic period (4th millennium B.C.). The earlier phase is a local Late Chalcolithic occupation, and the second phase shows evidence of contact with Uruk Mesopotamia.
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The Spindle Whorl Inscription from Chatal Hüyük: A Forgery

Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 1973
My subject is the Phoenician inscription on a spindle whorl excavated at Chatal Hiiyiik in North Syria in 1934 and published and dated to the eighth century by Stanley Gevirtz in 1967.1 Numerous linguistic and paleographic irregularities require that it be reexamined and its authenticity reassessed.
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The Distribution of Late Postclassic Spindle Whorls in the Valley of Mexico

American Antiquity, 1975
Settlement pattern surveys over a large portion of the Valley of Mexico by Sanders, Blanton, and Parsons have produced a sample of over 600 Aztec spindle whorls with good provenience data. This paper examines the distribution of both cotton and maguey whorls, and their variation from sub-region to sub-region within the Valley of Mexico.
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Spindle Whorl

2021
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Spindle Whorl

2022
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