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From Minos to Midas : Ancient Cloth Production in the Aegean and in Anatolia

Cover; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Framing the Discussion; 2 Prehistoric Textile Production on Crete; 3 Cloth Production in the Mycenaean World; 4 Gordion and Phrygian Cloth Production; 5 Comparative Textile Production and Conclusions; Bibliography; Index

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Autore principale: Burke, Brendan (Autore)
Natura: Online Resource Libro
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Havertown : Oxbow Books , 2010
Edizione:Online-Ausg.
Serie:EBL-Schweitzer
Ancient Textiles v.7
Ancient textiles series v. 7
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Riassunto:Cover; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Framing the Discussion; 2 Prehistoric Textile Production on Crete; 3 Cloth Production in the Mycenaean World; 4 Gordion and Phrygian Cloth Production; 5 Comparative Textile Production and Conclusions; Bibliography; Index
Textile production was of greater value and importance to people in the past than any other social craft activity: everyone depended on cloth. As with other craft goods, such as pottery, metal objects, or ivory carving, the large-scale production and exchange of textiles required specialization and some degree of centralization. This book takes an explicitly economic approach to textile production, focusing on regional centers, most often referred to as palaces, to understand the means by which states in the Aegean and Anatolia financed themselves through cloth industries. From this we can loo
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Descrizione fisica:Online-Ressource (1 online resource (223 p.))
ISBN:9781842177730