Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with Special Reference to the Aegean

by Elizabeth Wayland Barber

Book Overview

This pioneering work revises our notions of the origins and early development of textiles in Europe and the Near East. Using innovative linguistic techniques, along with methods from palaeobiology and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691035970
• ISBN13: 9780691035970
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 508 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Fascinating

E.J.W. Barber pieces together the overlooked archaeological evidence relating to prehistoric textiles in a comprehensive and compelling way in her book, Prehistoric Textiles. Not only does this book provide an excellent education about textiles from this era, but one can also glean so much about human existence during this period when we understand the relationship that people of this time had with textiles. A fascinating and thoroughly entertaining read!

don't be put off by this books phd look

this book is another attempt to help us accept the fact that the peoples living before 4000BC where not cave-dwelling morons as most archeologist think, mrs barbers incredibly well researched book takes us on a discovery that ends too soon and makes us hope she will follow up with a book on the rest of the world....