Terminology can be defined as (1) the vocabulary specifically linked to a field of expertise,
as (2) the academic discipline devoted to the study of this vocabulary, or as (3) the linguistic …

It should be emphasised that textile tools have never attracted much attention in the
archaeological literature, and this explains why specialised and systematic publications on …

In this paper, the author takes the approach that value is a judgment that people make about
things based on desire, and the potential of the effects those things engender. On this basis …

The 2nd millennium BC Aegean witnesses the emergence of a highly specialised system of
wool economy: the Late Bronze Age Mycenaean centralized palace economies with their …

The aim of this research is to compare the cloth cultures of Europe and Egypt in the Bronze
Age and New Kingdom. The comparison focuses on the fourteenth century cal BC and …

Whilst seemingly simple garments such as the tunic remained staples of the classical
wardrobe, sources from the period reveal a rich variety of changing styles and attitudes to …

Textile production on Crete and Cyprus was central to the economy of the household and
long-distance exchange. Across the Mediterranean and in the Near East, textiles were …

Based on complete archaeological examples preserved in Ugarit and Delos, this chapter
will investigate the interpretation of Late Bronze Age ivory pomegranate-knobbed1 and …

Linear B written documents include both archival (tablets, nodules, labels) and non-archival
documents (mainly inscriptions on vases but also on various objects). The economy of wool …

The early Late Bronze Age material record of the southern Aegean shows evidence of
strong Cretan influence, manifest through a variety of Cretan-style material culture features …