YARNSCAPE: Ecological Economies of Ancient Textiles

Project description

Ancient fibre production and economic evolution

More than 10 000 years ago, human communities started to function differently. The impact of cloth on long-term economy and the environment has too often been side-lined as ephemeral. The EU-funded YARNSCAPE project will investigate the link between textiles and the emergence and expansion of early complex societies. It will focus on data from the eastern Mediterranean and western Asia in the 4th and 3rd millennium BCE. It will also test innovative methods against an in-depth study of primary data from a field site on the Milesian Peninsula in Turkey. Overall, the project will develop a robust, cutting-edge toolkit and a set of theoretical approaches to ancient fibre production and their economies.

Fields of science

• engineering and technology › materials engineering › textiles
• engineering and technology › environmental engineering › remote sensing

Keywords

• Textile Production
• Fibre and Yarn Agro-Economies
• Human Impact on Landscape Ecology
• Remote Sensing
• GIS
• Economic History
• Archaeological Survey
• Complex Society

Programme(s)

• H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Main Programme
• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility

Topic(s)

• MSCA-IF-2018 - Individual Fellowships

Call for proposal

H2020-MSCA-IF-2018

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Funding Scheme

MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)

Coordinator

Institut Català d'Arqueologia Clàssica

Net EU contribution

€ 172 932,48

Address

Plaça Rovellat S/n
43003 Tarragona
Spain

Region

Este › Cataluña › Tarragona

Activity type

Research Organisations

Links

Other funding

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