کارگران نساجی: مهارت‌ها، کار و وضعیت صنعتگران نساجی بین اژه پیش از تاریخ و خاورمیانه باستان

Studies on ancient textiles currently know a considerable growth. This volume contributes to the field, focusing on craftmanship. By surveying various cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Aegean, the compiled articles offer an overview of textile workers in action from the Stone Age to Late Antiquity. Combining various approaches such as archaeology, text studies, and experimentation, the contributions explore the social status, gender, age, and working conditions of the textile workers. Moreover, they investigate their intellectual capability, through a study of the acquisition, performance and transmission of skills. This collective work aims at opening a new perspective in the field of textile studies, in particular in the history of textile crafts in ancient societies--Publisher's website Cover 1 Contents 8 Preface by the Series Editor 10 Introduction 12 Textile Technologies: Knowledge, Skills and Production 16 In the Minds of Early Weavers: Perceptions of Geometry, Metrology and Value in the Neolithic Aegean 18 Craftspeople, Craftsmanship and Textile Production in Early Bronze Age Greece 28 Mediterran. Interconnections: Weaving Technologies during the Middle Bronze Age 46 How to Make a Sassanian Tunic: Understanding Handcraft Skills based on a Find from the Salt Mine in Chehrābād, Iran 60 Working Conditions: Apprenticeship, Labour and Working Environment 74 Agencies of Textile Production in Western Anatolian and Aegean Prehistory 76 How to Become a Textile Worker? Training and Apprenticeship of Child Labourers in the Bronze Age 92 Contemporary Actors and Bronze Age Textile Techniques from Greece 110 The Social Status of Textile Workers: Economy, Family and Gender 126 Textile Workers in the Royal Archives of Mari (Syria, 18th Century BC) 128 Textile Tools, Significant Markers of Gender? The Case of the Cremation Cemetery Tell Shiukh Fawqâni (Syria) 140 Insights into the Professional Life of a Dyer’s Family from Sippar across the 6th Century BC 150 Index 162