Objective Textile tools in the archaeological record provide significant yet so far unacknowledged information at three levels: (1) their shape and decorations highlight interaction between different cultural communities, (2) their findspots testify to the individuals' personal, occupational or gendered space in households and graves, and (3) textile tools' functional features illuminate the type of textiles that were once manufactured and thus visualise what has today been lost in the archaeological record. Textile tools are thus my key to the exploration of textile technologies and cultural identities in Iron Age contexts in South Italy and Cyprus, regions that have a mixed cultural heritage with Greek and Phoenician influx. The project utilises new textile tool analyses based on systematic experimental archaeology and introduces social agency theory for the first time in a textile context; this analysis of the textile producers and their tools will provide new knowledge to the discussion of socio-cultural dynamics and technologies in culturally mixed areas. Fields of science engineering and technologymaterials engineeringtextileshumanitieshistory and archaeologyarchaeology Programme(s) FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Topic(s) FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF - Marie-Curie Action: "Intra-European fellowships for career development" Call for proposal FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF See other projects for this call Funding Scheme MC-IEF - Intra-European Fellowships (IEF) Coordinator KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET Address Norregade 10 1165 Kobenhavn Denmark See on map Region Danmark Hovedstaden Byen København Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Marie Louise Bech Nosch (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution No data
