TITLE: Mummies Of Urumchi AUTHOR: Elizabeth Wayland Barber DATE PUBLISHED: 1999 FORMAT: Hardcover ISBN-13: 9780333730249 ____________________________ DESCRIPTION: "In the museums of Ürümchi, the windswept regional capital of the Uyghur Autonomous Region (also known as Chinese Turkestan...
Marvelous! Somewhat outdated now in terms of archaeological discoveries, since it's some years old, but that's the inevitable effect of time. My one major complaint is that it's pretty much focused on Europe and the Mediterranean basin; some of that is an effect of the focus on woven textiles, but...
Beautifully written and extremely interesting.
Elizabeth Wayland Barber looks at the evidence from the past and looks at textile manufacture and the contribution of women to textile manufacture in particular. She takes the reader through the evidence adding in some experience of weaving and spinning into the mix. This ads a certain authenticit...
I'm not generally into archaeology/anthropology, but this intrigued me. These bodies were found in bogs, mostly in Denmark. The acidic water in the bogs preserved the bodies so well that people who found them thought they were recent murder victims and often called the police! Turns out they were...
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