This chapter provides a detailed review of known textile fragments from the bi-ritual cemeteries of the so-called Upper Silesia-Lesser Poland group of the Lusatian culture.

This chapter discusses the strontium isotopic tracing system and its potential application for achieving a better understanding of ancient textile production.

Adopting a community of practice model as a frame of reference, it is argued that it is possible to envision the development and patterns of specialisation within local and regional weaving practices

This final chapter discusses how the introduction of wool affected societies substantially and in ways that we are only now beginning to comprehend.

This chapter assesses the evidence for textiles from the Early Nordic Bronze Age and aims to shed light on the origins of the surviving textile fragments and exchange networks involved.

This chapter investigates an Early Bronze Age centre of Únětice culture, focusing on what can be learned about textile production from the remains of textile imprints on ceramics.

This chapter challenges assumptions about textile evidence and re-evaluates the role of textiles in the funerary events of the Early Bronze Age in Britain.

The dissolution of the EBA towns gives way to the 500-year-long interim period, characterized by small villages in areas suited for agro-pastoral economic strategies and a prominent mortuary culture.

The Conclusion briefly recapitulates some of the unifying themes of the volume: the tension between connectivity and isolation, power and egalitarian principles, continuity and violent disruption.

The start of the EBA is marked by a simple Mediterranean village culture; it ends with the growth of 10- to 20-hectare mega-villages reflecting the social power garnered by village leaders and their ability to create surplus through cereal, vine and olive cultivation. It also marks a period of increasing interaction with pre-dynastic Egypt, culminating in the creation of the first Egyptian “colony” in the Levant.

The dissolution of the EBA towns gives way to the 500-year-long interim period, characterized by small villages in areas suited for agro-pastoral economic strategies and a prominent mortuary culture.

The movement of people and ideas from north to south and the renewal of trade with Egypt instigated a revival of settlement in the Levant, first along the coast and valleys, then in the highlands. Fortified ritual centers become foci of integrated polities with flourishing crafts, marking the high-water mark of second millennium Canaanite culture.

In Early Bronze II some of the central traits of Near Eastern urbanism were adopted across the southern Levant, including aggregations in fortified centers, the adoption of corporate governance, the creation of standardized commodities and the concentration of staple goods. It is followed by a far less balanced system (EB III), characterized by massive fortification, the disappearance of villages, and the arrival of “Khirbet Kerak” migrants.