Awards

• Winner of American Historical Association James Henry Breasted Prize 1993
• Winner of American Historical Association James Henry Breasted Prize 1993.
• Winner of American Historical Association's James Henry Breasted Prize 1993.
• Winner of Davenport Publication Award 1992 (United States)
• Winner of James Henry Breasted Prize of the American Historical Association 1993 (United States)

Overview

Provides information on the origins and early development of textiles in Europe and the Near East. Using linguistic techniques, along with methods from palaeobiology and other fields, this book shows that spinning and pattern weaving began far earlier than has been supposed. It tells how it was more culturally significant to prehistoric cultures.

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This monumental study embraces linguistic and archaeological investigations, practical knowledge of weaving, palaeobiology, and other arcane sciences to trace the development of cloth. Washington Post Book World Packed full of useful and intriguing information ... also remarkably well written. This conjunction of virtues advances archaeological understanding of textiles and their social and cultural implications a giant step. -- Trudy S. Kawami Science An exhilarating book. As the first comprehensive account of one of humanity's oldest industries, it will be a basic tool for archaeologists... -- Helen Hughes Brock Antiquity

This monumental study embraces linguistic and archaeological investigations, practical knowledge of weaving, palaeobiology, and other arcane sciences to trace the development of cloth. -- Washington Post Book World Packed full of useful and intriguing information ... also remarkably well written. This conjunction of virtues advances archaeological understanding of textiles and their social and cultural implications a giant step. -- Trudy S. Kawami, Science An exhilarating book. As the first comprehensive account of one of humanity's oldest industries, it will be a basic tool for archaeologists... -- Helen Hughes Brock, Antiquity

This monumental study embraces linguistic and archaeological investigations, practical knowledge of weaving, palaeobiology, and other arcane sciences to trace the development of cloth. -- Washington Post Book World Packed full of useful and intriguing information ... also remarkably well written. This conjunction of virtues advances archaeological understanding of textiles and their social and cultural implications a giant step. -- Trudy S. Kawami, Science An exhilarating book. As the first comprehensive account of one of humanity's oldest industries, it will be a basic tool for archaeologists... -- Helen Hughes Brock, Antiquity

Author Information

E.J.W. Barber is Professor of Linguistics and Archaeology at Occidental College and is a handweaver. Prehistoric Textiles won the Millia Davenport Publication Award of the Costume Society of America.

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