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Spindle whorls

open access: yesNotes and Queries, 1880
H. Rivett-Carnac
exaly   +3 more sources

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 ...
Francesca Fernandini Parodi   +1 more
exaly   +2 more sources

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.
exaly   +4 more sources

Archaic Spindle Whorls of Cowboy Cave and Walters Cave in Utah

Kiva, The, 2019
The theory that spindle whorls were used in the Archaic Southwest is proposed to explain the presence of spindle whorls at the Archaic hunter-gatherer of sites Cowboy and Walters Caves.
exaly   +2 more sources

Spindle Whorls

Bobou, Olympia   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Changes in Fiber Use and Spinning Technologies on the Iranian Plateau: A comparative and diachronic study of spindle whorls ca 4500-2500 BCE

open access: yesPaleorient, 2012
Spindle whorls are an ubiquitous artifact, yet can often be elusive in their interpretation. Nomenclature inconsistencies make comparative studies challenging, and lack of information or detail on primary context can compromise efforts to reconstruct the
Good, Irene
exaly   +2 more sources

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