Elizabeth Wincott Heckett, Cork, and Eva Andersson, Lund
The Archaeology of Textiles and Clothing II
http://eaacork.ucc.ie/abstracts.html
Session Abstract
Since the use of cloth, clothing and self decoration is behaviour exclusive to the human species it is an essential component of archaeological studies. Following on the wide-ranging papers presented at Lyon 2004 the textile session in Cork will develop and deepen the discussion with papers that will inform a more general audience of the scope and breadth of textile research.
The papers provide a wide perspective, correlating different aspects of the area of study, and covering a broad time span from the Neolithic through the Hellenistic and Roman to Post-Medieval periods. The session starts with a preview of the new Centre for Textile Research due to open in the University of Copenhagen in August 2005, and finishes with an exploration of the important dual realities and interrelationship of academic knowledge and creative/technical knowledge.
There are overviews of cloth finds and clothing types from particular geographic areas ranging from Islam in the Caucasus to headcoverings from Late Iron Age Finland, while other contributions cover general contexts that are technical, social or time-related. Topics include textile handicraft and technology in Scandinavia and Ireland, aspects of social organization and economics in such different situations as the Alpine Copper Age and Hellenistic and Roman times. Gender issues are explored through the organization of spinning in Eastern Europe.
This session intends to be interesting to all who want to inform themselves on the present state of textile studies as a basic component of material culture.
Dr Eva Andersson, Institut for Arkeologi, Lund University, Sweden
Centre for Textile Research in Copenhagen. From vision to mission
Susanna Harris, Institute of Archaeology, London
The social context of cloth in prehistoric societies: a case study of northern Italy and the Alpine region
Stephen Keates, University of Birmingham, UK
?The Self Emblazoned:? Cloth and Cosmology in Copper Age Alpine Europe
Sophie Bergerbrant, Stockholm University.
Weaving identity, cultural belonging and textile production. 1600-1300 BC in Southern Scandinavia and Northern Germany.
Judit Pásztókai-Szeõke, Hungary
The archaeological heritage of Roman textile production in Pannonia
Sue Harrington, London, UK
Textiles, technology and ethnicity - a contribution to debates regarding the Jutish settlement in Kent, England, in the fifth and sixth centuries AD
Susan Möller-Wiering, Schleswig, Germany
Old Saxon textiles from Liebenau in Lower Saxony
Maria Fitzgerald, National Roads Authority, Ireland
Textiles in early Ireland: the tools of production
Elizabeth Wincott Heckett, Department of Archaeology, University College, Cork.
An Overview of Early Medieval Irish Textiles 600-1200AD: ?The Slender Thread over the Hand of a Skilled Woman?
Heidi Kirjavainen, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
Late Iron Age Headcoverings: A garment of regional speciality?
Dr. Erzsébet Marton, National Office of Cultural Heritage, Budapest, Hungary
The Sleeping Beauty and the Spinning: Approaches to a ?typical? women?s housework in Eastern European Archaeology
Dr. Anna Drazkowska, Institut Archeologii e Etnografii UMK, Torun, Poland
"The people buried clad in linings"
Timm Weski, Bayer Landescharf für Dankmalpflege, Munich, Germany
An archaeological view on historic local costumes ? How uniform were they?
Zvezdana Dode, The Russian Academy for Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Silk Paradise in the Northern Caucasus, (Iranian figured fabric of the 16th century
Prof. Dr. Lise Bender Jørgensen Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Theorizing Craftmanship