Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Julye Bidmead
• NORMA FRANKLIN
• MATTHEW J. ADAMS
• ISRAEL FINKELSTEIN
• DAVID USSISHKIN
• MARIO A.S. MARTIN
• ERIC H. CLINE
• ERAN ARIE

Titel

TEXTILE PRODUCTION

Ist Teil von

• Megiddo V, 2013, p.1094

Ort / Verlag

Penn State University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Second only to agriculture and food preparation, textile production was crucial to survival in ancient Israel (King and Stager 2001: 146). Textile production included several disparate tasks – spinning, weaving, sewing and embroidery – each requiring a different skill and a different tool. While physical evidence such as textile remains and wooden looms do not survive well in the archaeological record, many of the implements employed for textile manufacture are abundant in most excavations. Analysis of recovered spindle whorls (flywheels), loom weights and needles, objects mostly made of clay, bone, stone or metal, combined with textual references and ethnographic parallels