Spindle whorls and seals are distinct classes of Aegean material culture: the whorls were the tools of an essential textile craft, spinning thread, and their motifs were usually incised, and less often impressed or stamped on wet clay. Some of the most common spindle whorl motifs and designs, such as the zig-zag, the six-pointed star, concentric circles, chevrons, triangles (often hatched), dotted borders, are also found in the Aegean seal motifs repertoire. What was the reason for investing extra time to create these designs on spindle whorls? Did they convey meaning or were they mere ornamentation? These are some of the questions that have puzzled archaeologists studying prehistoric Aegean spinning. Such is also the case of some Aegean Bronze Age cultures: a survey of spindle whorls found in Aegean contexts reveals that in certain periods and places spinners were using whorls with motifs on their surfaces. Spindle whorls need not bear any designs to perform their function, yet in certain cultures they do. Ubiquitous motifs: common designs on spindle whorls and seals of the Aegean Bronze Age Sophia Vakirtzi (Hellenic Organization of Cultural Resources Development ), Part 1: Seal-impressed: textile tools and sealsĬhair: Eva Andersson Strand(Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen)ġ. The schedule of the workshop is available here. iconography of textile production on seals and textile production-related real-world referents for the script signs.impressing seals, incising, and inscribing marks and notation practices on textile tools, e.g.imprints of cords and textiles on the undersides of clay sealings as a source of textile knowledge and the evidence for ‘technical’ uses of textiles.It would be especially interesting to discuss the following phenomena: EuroWeb’.Īt the workshop, we would like to examine and discuss a range of relationships between textile production and seals, and sealing practices from a wider geo-chronological perspective. 2017/26/D/HS3/00145) and the COST action CA 19131 ‘ Europe Through Textiles: Network for an integrated and interdisciplinary Humanities. The Workshop is organised as part of the ‘ Textiles and Seals’ research project of the National Science Centre of Poland (ref. Organiser: Agata Ulanowska (Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw) It is possible, as a result, both to demonstrate and to start to measure the impact of correlated developments across the climatic and biological data to articulate their relevance to our perception and appreciation of our shared situation in 2021 and also to outline how both continuing and new, integrated and international research should enable archaeology to make further major contributions to public awareness and understanding in the future. It will also draw upon supplementary research from other areas of northern Europe, where specific local conditions often make it possible to incorporate different forms of evidence – not least palaeo-environmentally relevant sequences – in much greater detail. This presentation will survey ongoing research into these topics as reflected in the Anglo-Saxon cemetery populations in England of the 6 th century AD, and particularly the impact of using a range of advanced laboratory analytical techniques. There can be few issues that are more topical or more truly global in importance than the facts and effects of climate change, and the serious challenges placed upon human economic stability and social cohesion by sudden, lethal, pandemic disease. John Hines (Cardiff University, Wales, UK)Ĭlimate Change and Pandemics: Past, Present and Future John Hines, to be held on March 22nd, 2021 (Monday) at 17:00 CET. We kindly invite you to the keynote public lecture by Prof.
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