Textile Archaeology
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An Invitation to Read ‘Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years’
I’m starting a book club!
After floating the idea in a note last week, I was so excited to see how many of you were interested! I thought I’d share a few more details about what I have in mind and how you can join.
The book I’d like to st...
Redefining the Suit of Armour: 5 Examples That Go Beyond Metal
Insights from Oceania, Africa, and Asia
In my last essay (which you can find here), I discussed preservation bias and how it allows metal armour to dominante our ideas of Bronze Age conflict, while linen armour, which was likely just as co...
Linen Armour & The Ancient Warrior: How Preservation Bias Shapes our Perceptions of How People Dressed for Battle
Over the summer, the internet became wildly interested in ancient armour due to the costuming choices for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. Underlying many of these debates stood a single archetypal image of an ancient warrior, clad in heavy...
Material Culture(d): Fall 2026
Large scale Viking Age textile production, the role of AI in reconstructing ancient tapestry & the largest collection of African American quilts goes on display
Before I get into the news, I first want to say THANK YOU to everyone who cont...
Identity & Exchange : Secondhand Markets of Medieval England
On navigating crime, social aspirations and the self
This essay is the second part of a two-part series. You can find part one here, discussing how the growing wool industry in England, along with the social pressures created after the Bla...
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Textile and textile related discoveries from prehistory to present day and what they can tell us about the lives of women, cultural identities and social structures
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