Crafting Minoanisation: Textiles, Crafts Production & Social Dynamics in the Bronze Age Southern Aegean (Ancient Textiles)

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The mid second millennium BC material record of the southern Aegean shows evidence of strong Cretan influence. This phenomenon has traditionally been seen when it comes to ‘Minoanisation’, but the nature and degree of Cretan influence, and the process/processes by which it was once spread and adopted, have been widely debated. This new study addresses the question of ‘Minoanisation’ through a study of the adoption of Cretan technologies in the wider southern Aegean: principally, weaving technology.

By the early Late Bronze Age, Cretan-style discoid loom weights had appeared at quite a few settlements across the southern Aegean. Normally, this represents not only the adoption of a particular type of loom weight, but also the introduction of a new weaving technology: using the warp-weighted loom. The evidence for, and the implications of, the adoption of this new technology is examined. Drawing upon recent advances in textile experimental archaeology, the types of textiles that are likely to have been produced at a range of sites both on Crete itself and in the wider southern Aegean are discussed, and the likely nature and scale of textile production at the quite a lot of settlements is assessed.

A consideration of the evidence for the timing and extent of the adoption of Cretan weaving technology in the light of additional evidence for the adoption of other Cretan technologies is used to gain insight into the potential social and economic strategies engaged in by quite a lot of groups across the southern Aegean, in addition to the motivations that may have driven the adoption and adaptation of Cretan cultural traits and accompanying behaviors. By examining how technological skills and techniques are learned and considering conceivable mechanisms for the transmission of such technical knowledge and know-how, new perspectives will also be proposed concerning the processes through which Cretan techniques were taken up and imitated out of the country.

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