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Subject(s)

• Indigenous textile fabrics [Browse]
• Indigenous baskets [Browse]
• Indigenous cordage [Browse]
• Archaeology—Methodology [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples—Antiquities [Browse]
• America—Antiquities [Browse]

Related name

• Drooker, Penelope B. [Browse]
• Webster, Laurie D., 1952- [Browse]

Summary note

In recent years, archaeological textile research has undergone a major expansion in scope. Once primarily concerned with the simple description of fabrics, basketry, and cordage, textile researchers now routinely employ these highly perishable artifacts as windows into ancient cultural systems, using theoretical modeling, stylistic and structural analysis, and cutting-edge analytical technology to explore issues of production, exchange, ethnic identity, and social status. Beyond Cloth and Cordage is an overview of current research on New World archaeological fabrics. It demonstrates that textile data is a unique means of addressing questions of broad anthropological interest, as well as problems difficult if not impossible to resolve by other means. Contributing authors include senior experts and others whose work is breaking new ground in a variety of topics. Encompassing both method and theory, these include the recovery and care of textile remains, microanalytical methods, models of production and exchange, and inferences regarding social status, behavior, and ethnicity. The broad geographical scope includes case studies from northeastern North America, the Great Basin, the American Southwest, Mesoamerica, and Andean South America.

Notes

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-326) and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Archaeological textile research in the Americas / Laurie D. Webster, with Penelope Ballard Drooker
• Handling archaeological textile remains in the field and laboratory / Jenna Tedrick Kuttruff and Mary Strickland-Olsen
• Microanalytical methods for studying prehistoric textile fibers / Kathryn A. Jakes
• Prehistoric textiles : production, function, semiotics / Annette G. Ericksen, Kathryn A. Jakes, and Virginia S. Wimberley
• Spinning and plying : anthropological directions / C. Jill Minar
• Spin and twist as cultural markers : a New England perspective on native fiber industries / James B. Petersen and Jack A. Wolford
• Ancient matting from spirit cave, Nevada : technical implications / Catherine S. Fowler, Eugene M. Hattori, and Amy J. Dansie
• The Mexican connection : a study of sociotechnical change in perishable manufacture and food production in prehistoric New Mexico / D. C. Hyland and J. M. Adovasio
• Revealing clothes : textiles of the Upper Ruin, Tonto National Monument / Lynn S. Teague
• The economics of Pueblo textile production and exchange in colonial New Mexico / Laurie D. Webster
• Textile research from the Mesoamerican perspective / Patricia R. Anawalt
• Andean textiles from village and cemetery : Caserones in the Tarapac Valley, North Chile / Amy Oakland Rodman
• Prehistoric Andean ethnicity and status : the textile evidence
• Vicki Cassman.

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ISBN

1-60781-802-7

OCLC

70773623

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