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Bronze Age Textiles: Men, Women and Wealth
Contributor(s): Randsborg, Klavs (Author), Hodges, Richard (Editor)
ISBN: 071564078X     ISBN-13: 9780715640784
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
OUR PRICE:   $35.59  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: May 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science
- History | Ancient - Greece
- History | World - General
Dewey: 677
Series: Duckworth Debates in Archaeology
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.3" W x 8.4" (0.50 lbs) 176 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region - Greece
 
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In the ancient civilizations of the Eastern
Mediterranean, textiles were generally much more costly than foodstuffs,
animals or bronzes; it is very likely that the same was the case throughout
prehistoric Europe. In this study, the first
for over seventy years, Klavs Randsborg examines completely preserved woollen
dresses, both female and male, from Danish oak coffin graves of the early
second millennium BC. These garments, matched in age and superb preservation
only by finds from Ancient Egypt, along with related artefacts such as images
and figurines, are used to build up a rich picture of Bronze Age society and
culture in the context of archaeological, ethnographical and historical
information from Europe and beyond.

Contributor Bio(s): Randsborg, Klavs: - Klavs Randsborg is Professor of World Archaeology at the University of Copenhagen. His research covers the Scandinavian, European and Mediterranean Neolithic, the Bronze and Iron Ages, Classical and Near Eastern Antiquity, the Roman Period, the Migration Period, the Viking Age and the Early Middle Ages as well as African archaeology and Global topics. He is a member of the permanent council of UNESCO.