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Ancient textiles and clothing in flux

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IanGilligan. Climate, clothing, and agriculture in prehistory: linking evidence, causes, and effects. 2019. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-108-47008-7 £71.99.
HeatherHopkins & KatrinKania (ed.). Ancient textiles, modern science II (Ancient Textiles 34). 2019. Oxford & Philadelphia: Oxbow; 978-1-78925-120-3 £35.
MałgorzataSiennicka, LorenzRahmstorf & AgataUlanowska (ed.). First textiles: the beginnings of textile manufacture in Europe and the Mediterranean (Ancient Textiles 32). 2018. Oxford & Philadelphia: Oxbow; 978-1-78570-798-8 £45.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2019

Lise Bender Jørgensen
Lise Bender Jørgensen*
Affiliation:
NTNU—Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Historical Studies, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway (Email: [email protected])
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Textiles and clothing are fundamental aspects of everyday life in the past but are often overlooked in archaeology. Fortunately, this is changing, as witnessed by three new books, reviewed here. Two deal with the beginnings of clothing and textile production, but in different ways; the third contains contributions reflecting on this theme. The monograph by Ian Gilligan—a polyhistory of medicine, psychology, prehistoric archaeology and biological anthropology—presents new theories on the emergence of clothing and textiles in a sustained argument; the two other books, edited volumes comprising 29 papers by textile specialists, each present new research on different aspects of ancient textiles and clothing. In several cases, authors disagree, enhancing the value of the debates, and adding to our understanding of the impact on society of ancient textile production and clothing.

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Antiquity , Volume 93 , Issue 371 , October 2019 , pp. 1381 - 1385
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2019 

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