The use of local fibres for textiles at Neolithic Çatalhöyük

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ID3150694
AutoresAntoinette Rast-Eicher (University of Bern, autor correspondente), Sabine Karg (0000-0002-1011-4859, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Zentrale), Lise Bender Jørgensen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Ano2021
Volume95
Fascículo383
Páginas1129-1144
Data de publicação2021-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAntiquity (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744
EditoraAntiquity Publications (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.15184/aqy.2021.89
OpenAlexW3177844612
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências citadas21

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 sourced oak bast. This result is consistent with the near absence of flax seeds at Çatalhöyük, and suggests there was no need for the importation of fibres from elsewhere; it also questions the date at which domesticated flax was first used for fibres. These findings shed new light on early textile production in the Neolithic, suggesting that tree bast played a more significant role than previously recognised

Ancient history · Archaeology · Bast fibre · Biology · Botany · Composite material · Domestication · Geography · Textile · Weaving · Ancient Near East History · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Ecology · History · Materials Science