The majority of research to date on the translocation of livestock in the premodern (before
1500 CE) Mediterranean Basin has focused on expansive movements out from geographic …

This book brings together our present-day knowledge about textile terminology in the
Akkadian language of the first-millennium BC. In fact, the progress in the study of the …

In Byblos in the Late Bronze Age, Marwan Kilani reconstructs the “biography” of the city of
Byblos during the Late Bronze Age. Commonly described simply as a centre for the trade of …

Ancient textiles were made with natural fibres (eg flax, wool, nettle, hemp, silk) using a wide
range of techniques and methods for making thread, weaving, sewing, and decorating to …

In recent years, extensive archaeological studies have provided us with new knowledge on
wool and woollen textile production at the Terramare site of Montale, in the Po plain …

A number of studies over the last decades have considerably increased our knowledge
about production and trade of woollen textiles during the Bronze Age in the Near East, the …

Despite the dynamic portrayal of clothes in the Hebrew Bible scholars continue to interpret
them as flat and inert objects. They are often overlooked or reduced to background details in …

Arguing for an integrated wool-textile economy in the Bronze Age, this paper assesses
characteristics and scale of pastoral economy and sheepherding at the Terramare …

The commodity money system of the Ur III economy dictated a structure of relative prices
which related the equivalent values of all commodities to each other. The cornerstone of this …

CAMILA ALDAY is an archaeologist. Her doctoral research at the University of Cambridge
explored bast fibre materials, in an attempt to understand how the production of nets, looped …