Lise Bender Joergensen- Doctor of Philosophy
- Professor Emerita at Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Lise Bender Joergensen
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Professor Emerita at Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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Woven textiles from Çatalhöyük in southern Anatolia are among the earliest-known examples of weaving in the Near East and Europe. Studies of material excavated in the 1960s identified the fibres as flax. New scanning electron microscope analysis, however, shows these fibres—and others from more recent excavations at the site—to be made from locally...
Responding to recent advances in knowledge about the first arrival of woollen sheep in Europe and linked investigations of textile remains on the Continent, this paper argues that our insight into the role of wool in the English Bronze Age needs rethinking. We argue that the relevant questions are: when did the procurement of and working with wool...
Insights from anthropology, religious studies, biblical studies, sociology, classics, and Jewish studies are here combined to provide a cutting-edge guide to dress and religion in the Greco-Roman World and the Mediterranean basin. Clothing, jewellery, cosmetics, and hairstyles are among the many aspects examined to show the variety of functions of...
Over many years, illustrator Miranda Bødtker (1896–1996) carried out drawings for botanists, zoologists and archaeologists at Bergen Museum, the University of Bergen. After her death, thousands of drawings were discovered in her estate. Among them were numerous unpublished drawings of archaeological textiles from five sites. Bødtker’s illustrations...
Textiles and clothing are fundamental aspects of everyday life in the past but are often overlooked in archaeology. Fortunately, this is changing, as witnessed by three new books, reviewed here. Two deal with the beginnings of clothing and textile production, but in different ways; the third contains contributions reflecting on this theme. The mono...
Berit Hildebrandt with Carole Gillis, eds. Silk: Trade and Exchange along the Silk Roads between Rome and China in Antiquity (Ancient Textiles Series 19. Oxford & Philadephia: Oxbow Books, 2017, 130 pp, 85 colour and 24 b/w illustr., hbk, ISBN978-1-78570-289-2) - Volume 21 Issue 3 - Lise Bender Jørgensen
In 1990 the excavation of a group of tumuli in south-western Bosnia was published in the pages of Antiquity. The key discovery was the Bronze Age burial of an adult male (Pustopolje tumulus 16), wrapped in a large woollen textile. At the time, little attention was paid to the textile. New analyses of the fabric, however, have led to a reappraisal o...
Creativity is an integral part of human history, yet most studies focus on the modern era, leaving unresolved questions about the formative role that creativity has played in the past. This book explores the fundamental nature of creativity in the European Bronze Age. Considering developments in crafts that we take for granted today, such as potter...
The textiles made of plant fibres found in Çatalhöyük (Turkey) are dated to the mid 7th mill. BC and among the oldest found in Anatolia, The Near and Middle east. The article gives a first update in the project.
Saharan trade has been much debated in modern times, but the main focus of interest remains the medieval and early modern periods, for which more abundant written sources survive. The pre-Islamic origins of Trans-Saharan trade have been hotly contested over the years, mainly due to a lack of evidence. Many of the key commodities of trade are largel...
How to describe the faded colours in ancient textiles in a way that is understandable to others when no laboratory facilities are available and dye analysis not possible? How do we find names of colours that carry the right connotations to an international readership, and how can we refer to them? The paper discusses challenges posed by these quest...
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Während der Bronzezeit kam es in Europas nach dem Aufkommen von Wolle als neuem Rohstoff zu einer Reihe von Innovationen im Bereich der Textilien. Neue Analysen und die Nutzung der SEMMikroskopie erbrachten eine Vielzahl von Informationen zur Verwendung von Pflanzenfasern und Wolle, insbesondere zur Frage, wie und in welchem Umfang...
As the temperature rises each year, the assemblages of prehistoric hunters emerge from the ice. Archaeologists in Norway are now conducting regular surveys in the mountains to record the new finds. A recent example presented here consists of a whole tunic, made of warm wool and woven in diamond twill. The owner, who lived in the late Iron Age (thir...
Textiles and clothing are among the most visible aspects of human social and symbolic behaviour and yet they have left all too few traces in the archaeological record and it is easy to overlook their importance. Luxury textiles such as silk can additionally provide evidence of long-distance contact, notably between Europe and China during the Han d...
This article highlights and discusses the challenges of recreating the clothing of a wealthy Bronze Age woman from Winklarn in Austria. She was buried with jewelry and dress fittings that appear almost theatrical, such as a wide belt of bronze, extremely long pins, and a collar consisting
of fourteen spiked bronze pendants. A series of different so...
The objective of this article is to study cloth and appearance in the Bronze Age based on the evidence from a previously overlooked oak-log coffin find, the Nybol burial. The textiles have been investigated and our results compared with cloth from four well-known oak-log coffins: Muldbjerg, Trindhoj, and Borum Eshoj graves A and B. Our analysis dem...
Projet de recherche sur les textiles nord-europeens en particulier de l'Age du Fer pre-romain (Hallstatt, La Tene) et des periodes merovingienne et carolingienne. Definition des types de vetements pouvant etre attribues a des groupes geographiques ou chronologiques en Scandinavie et en Europe centrale. Donnees sur la technologie du textile
In 1946 two skeletons were found during peat-digging in Bolkilde bog in the north of the Danish island of Als. They have now been dated to the middle of the fourth millennium BC and are interpreted as ritual offerings of a fertility cult which went through from the early Neolithic to the time of Frej and Freja. All three authors are in the Universi...
