Travels, Transmissions and Transformations - and Textiles

2013

This paper follows the path forged by Kristian Kristiansen in his scholarship on ‘Travels, Transmissions and Transformations’. Specifically, this investigation into Bronze Age textiles, skins, tools and techniques from Denmark, which also incorporates the strontium isotope tracing system and textual evidence from the Mediterranean and Near East, adds the textile dimension to his impressive scholarly contribution. The various aspects of textiles highlight and demonstrate both similarities and differences in the archaeological record in the areas investigated. Even if it is not possible to make direct comparisons between southern and northern Europe in the Bronze Age, the various results clearly inspire and provide significant new insights into the production and consumption of textiles and the rise of Bronze Age societies.

Sabatini, S. & Bergerbrant, S. (eds.) The Textile revolution in Bronze Age Europe, 2019

(2019) In recent years, numerous books and articles have been written about Bronze Age textiles, woollen textile production in particular, from the Mediterranean and the Near East. This volume encompasses a wide range of studies aiming to broaden the horizon, and, in the light of recent scientific advances, to shift the focus to continental and northern Europe. Iconographical and archaeological evidence shows that Bronze Age Europe was not only a dressed world, but also one that was open to innovation as far as fibres and textile technology are concerned. Since technological innovations necessarily affected economic and social frameworks, this whole work maintains that the study of textile production holds great potential for enhancing our understanding of the Bronze Age world.

Antiquity 91 (2017), 2017

Recent analysis of the wool textiles from the famous Egtved oak coffin burial in Denmark indicated that the wool had been obtained from beyond Denmark. Was this an isolated case or evidence of a large-scale wool trade in the Danish Bronze Age? To investigate the broader pattern of wool provenance, textile manufacturing and trade practices, strontium isotope and organic dye analyses were conducted on textiles from a variety of selected burial contexts. Strontium isotope analysis revealed that at least 75 per cent of the Bronze Age wool samples originated outside present-day Denmark. Results also showed no evidence for the use of organic dyes, thereby supporting the hypothesis that no dyestuffs were used in Nordic Bronze Age textile production. These results challenge extant interpretations of Scandinavian Bronze Age textile provenance, and demonstrate the complexity of exchange networks in wool textiles during this period.

The Textile Revolution in Bronze Age Europe; Production, Specialisation, Consumption, 2020

Dark and decayed textile fragments found in burials have added little to debates on life and death in the Early Bronze Age. The reporting of technical features such as spin direction and weave count by specialists has alienated many generalists, who cannot easily recognise the value of this evidence. Yet these fragments provide fleeting glimpses into the pivotal way people of this time used textiles to create magnificent burials. This chapter challenges assumptions about the textile evidence and re-evaluates the contribution of textiles to the funerary events of this golden age.

Britannia, 2014

2010

The NESAT symposium has grown from the first meeting in 1981 which was attended by 23 scholars, to over 100 at the tenth meeting that took place in Copenhagen in 2008, with virtually all areas of Europe represented. The 50 papers from the conference presented here show the vibrance of the study of archaeological textiles today. Examples studied come from the Bronze Age, Neolithic, the Iron Age, Roman, Viking, the Middle Ages and post-Medieval, and from a wide range of countries including Norway, Czech Republic, Poland, Greece, Germany, Lithuania, Estonia and the Netherlands. Modern techniques of analysis and examination are also discussed.

Światowit , 2017

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