Textiles, textile production and clothing were essentials of living in prehistory, locked into the system of society at every level – social, economic and even religious. Textile crafts not only ...produced essential goods for everyday use, most notably clothing, but also utilitarian objects as well as representative and luxury items. Prehistoric clothing and their role in identity creation for the individual and for the group are also addressed by means of archaeological finds from Stone the Iron Age in Central Europe.
This contribution examines the Iron Age textiles (8th−4th century BCE) kept at the Dolenjski muzej in Novo mesto, Slovenia, with the aim of identifying their raw materials, technologies, functions ...and social significance and situating them in a wider European context. The primary textile weave identified is a wool twill, which is typical for the Hallstatt culture and Italic textile traditions. Wool quality analysis indicates a local raw material with different processing methods. Certain diachronic changes are identified in textile structural characteristics, which may be indicative of influences from other regions.
Studies of the typical late Neolithic Corded Ware beakers are usually undertaken from a morphological point of view, and describe the shape and decoration of the vessel. Interesting details can, ...however, also be identified via the technical description of the twisted cord impressions. In this paper, a clear methodology of such a technical analysis is presented. This analysis points out different quality standards of both the vessels and their patterning. The cord impressions have also been correlated with organic finds of cords from the same period. With the help of experimental archaeology, facts were investigated which elucidate the possible raw material used for the cord impressions, the quality of the clay, and the surface condition of the beakers.
The burial ground on the Obere Holzwiese consists of 215 burials and is therefore by far the largest uncovered burial site of Carolingian times in Lower Austria north of the Danube. It belonged to a ...fortified central settlement, a center of power, the core of which built a 'manor farm'. In addition to the comprehensive archaeological analysis the volume contains investigations concerning archaeobotanics, material analyses, metallography, anthropology, textiles and leather.
Textiles, textile production and clothing were essentials of living in prehistory, locked into the system of society at every level – social, economic and even religious. Textile crafts not only ...produced essential goods for everyday use, most notably clothing, but also utilitarian objects as well as representative and luxury items. Prehistoric clothing and their role in identity creation for the individual and for the group are also addressed by means of archaeological finds from Stone the Iron Age in Central Europe.
Textilien, Textilhandwerk und Kleidung bilden wichtige Lebensgrundlagen des urgeschichtlichen Menschen, mit Auswirkungen auf viele Aspekte des Lebens, seien es soziale, wirtschaftliche oder religiöse. Mit diesem Handwerk wurden nicht nur wesentliche Güter des täglichen Bedarfs - allen voran Kleidung - hergestellt, sondern auch Gebrauchswaren sowie repräsentative Objekte bis hin zu Luxusartikeln. Urgeschichtliche Kleidung und ihre Rolle als Identitätsmarker für die einzelnen Menschen, wie auch für Gruppen, werden mittels archäologischer Funde aus der Stein- bis Eisenzeit Mitteleuropas behandelt.
Textilien gehören wie Holz zu jenen Materialgruppen, die zwar im täglichen Leben der Menschen in der Urgeschichte eine sehr große Rolle spielten, über die man aber aufgrund der schlechten ...Erhaltungsbedingungen vergleichsweise wenig weiß. Aus hallstattzeitlichen Gräbern mit großem Metallreichtum sowie aus dem Salzbergwerk Hallstatt bekommt die Wissenschaft jedoch einen kleinen Eindruck davon, wie bunt, vielgestaltig und auch dekorativ Textilien in der Hallstattzeit um 800 bis 400 v. Chr. waren.
The current article presents the archaeological and archaeozoological evidence about the exploitation and utility of sheep wool for garments in Austria and its neighbouring countries. For this aim, ...the finds of sheep bone and textiles will be discussed, combined and evaluated in order to gain insights into the history of sheep, and especially its economic exploitation. The finds derive mainly from sites in Austria from the Neolithic to the Roman period.
In present day, cattle and pigs are by far the most common farm animals in Austria; the wild forms of both species have/had their natural habitat here. Nevertheless, the archaeozoological and archaeological results show that sheep have gained a place in the cultural history of Austria too. To name one example, textiles from Hallstatt salt mine indicate that sheep wool products played a very important role in Central Europe as early as the Middle Bronze Age.
In this study we present an early history of creating longitudinal three-dimensional textile structures, which might be produced by folding and pressing ready-woven cloth, but also by various ...spinning and weaving techniques such as spin patterning or barred damasks. They all have ONE thing in common: they result in the visual appearance of a pleated structure, a three-dimensional longitudinal pattern which produces a special effect. In this article we follow the history of pleated structures from 4000 BC to AD 1000. Archaeological textile finds from Central and Western Europe with some glimpse of Egypt are the basis of the different aspects of garments with pleats or a ribbed structure – including some thoughts on body language, visual effects and textile identity. We review well known finds and present new data.
Pleated textiles have been known for centuries, even millennia! Such attempts to produce three-dimensional structures started in prehistory, already during the late Neolithic Period. Linen textiles woven in tabby found in lake-dwellings and dated to the 4ᵗʰ millennium BC show horizontal lines woven in twill. These lines in another pattern than the main weave tend to be higher and three-dimensional. Later in Iron Age pleated garments have been created by experimenting with spin-patterning. Pleated garments are well visible on pictorial sources of that period. During the Early Medieval Period, pleated garments have been made technically in two ways, either by hand-pleating after weaving or creating the pleats in the weave (so-called "Rippenköper”, a twill variant). It seems to have been a fashion worn by rich Germanic women (tunic) and men (mantle); the variant with woven pleats have been made only in Alemannic areas (South Germany/Bavaria and North-East Switzerland).
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