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The fabric of society: recognising the importance of textiles and their manufacture in the ancient past

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Eva AnderssonStrand & Marie-LouiseNosch (ed.). Tools, textiles and contexts: investigating textile production in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age (Ancient Textiles Series 21). 2015. xiii+383 pages, numerous b&w and colour illustrations. Oxford & Philadelphia (PA): Oxbow; 978-1-84217-472-2 hardback £48.
Maria C.Shaw & Anne P.Chapin. Woven threads: patterned textiles of the Aegean Bronze Age (Ancient Textiles Series 22). 2016. 264 pages, numerous b&w and colour illustrations. Oxford & Philadelphia (PA): Oxbow; 978-1-78570-058-3 hardback £38.
StellaSpantidaki. Textile production in Classical Athens (Ancient Textiles Series 27). 2016. xxvii+228 pages, numerous b&w and colour illustrations. Oxford & Philadelphia (PA): Oxbow; hardback 978-1-78570-252-5 hardback £38.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2017

Lin Foxhall
Lin Foxhall*
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School of Histories, Languages & Cultures, University of Liverpool, 12 Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 7WZ, UK (Email: lin.foxhall@liverpool.ac.uk)
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Antiquity , Volume 91 , Issue 357 , June 2017 , pp. 808 - 811
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