Journal
JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 40, Issue 2, Pages 1224-1241Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2012.09.030
Keywords
Wool; Wool quality; Wool selection; Sheep breeding; Wool trade
Funding
- HERA
- Stzftelsen Agnes Geijers fond for nordisk textilforskning
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This study presents the results of a series of wool measurements from Bronze Age and Iron Age skins and textiles from Hallstatt, and Bronze Age textiles from Scandinavia and the Balkans. A new method of classification that was set up and applied on mostly mineralised Iron Age material has now been applied to a large body of non-mineralised material from the Bronze and Iron Ages. Three types of microscopes were used and their advantages and disadvantages assessed. The results of the investigation cast new light on sheep breeding and fibre processing in prehistoric Europe, and suggest that different sheep breeds existed in Bronze Age Europe. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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