A Splice in the Tale: Textile Technology at Hierakonpolis

... It is well attested in prehistoric European contexts such as the Neolithic pile-dwelling settlements in eastern Switzerland (Leuzinger and Rast-Eicher 2011). Splicing was also a common technique used in linen production during the Chalcolithic period in the southern Levant (Shamir 2015) and was also commonly used in ancient Egypt (Cooke et al. 1991;Granger-Taylor 1998Kemp and Vogelsang-Eastwood 2001;Dickey 2019). Its recognition as a ubiquitous technique in the past forces scholars to re-evaluate the textile chaîne opératoire and the use of certain tools, such as spindle whorls in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. ...