Weaving and Wearing Identity: Personal Adornment in Past Societies

Chapter 1. Introduction – The archaeology of adorning human bodies: Making, wearing and negotiating identity (Giulia Muti, Gabriella Longhitano, Sarah Hitchens, Alistair Dickey and Karina Grömer).- Part I: North and Central Europe.- Chapter 2. Wearing narratives of identity at the mid Upper Palaeolithic site of Grub-Kranawetberg (Austria) (Marjolein D. Bosch, Walpurga Antl Weiser, Aldona Kurzawska, Mathias Harzhauser, and Philip R. Nigst).- Chapter 3. Recreating Bronze Age clothing design in Central Europe – as evidenced by textile and pictorial sources (Kayleigh Saunderson and Karina Grömer).- Chapter 4. Male dress in the Roman Province Noricum, fourth and fifth century AD (Karina Grömer).- Chapter 5. “All that glitters ain’t gold’’ – Jewellery items and dress ornaments as “identity markers” in Avar-period funerary contexts (seventh-eighth century AD) from Eastern Austria: Theoretical and methodological considerations (Birgit Bühler).- Chapter 6. Textiles, feathers and dress identity in the Lombard period burial ground of Maria Ponsee, Austria (Anna Zimmermann and Karina Grömer).- Chapter 7. Faking purple, seeing red: Reconstruction of recipes and baselines for madder dyeing (Katrin Kania and Micky Schoelzke).- Part II: Mediterranean area.- Chapter 8. Wearing violence: Pre-Roman Central Italian weapons between practice and display (eighth to fifth century BC) (Elena Scarsella).- Chapter 9. Elements of identity to be worn: Reconstructing clothing culture in the Iron Age communities of Sicily through dress ornaments (Gabriella Longhitano).- Chapter 10. Jewellery fashion in the Greek colonies (Angeliki Liveri).- Chapter 11. Spinning on female identity in the Iberian culture (Patricia Rosell Garrido).- Part III: South West Asia and Africa.- Chapter 12. Bodies and behaviours: Archaeological material culture and the interpretation of identity at the Neolithic transition (Emma Baysal and Sera Yelozer).- Chapter 13. Dressed to connect: Ornamental strategies of affiliation in the third millennium BC, Cyprus (Rafael Laoutari).- Chapter 14. “You are what you wear from your feet to your hair”: Weaving narratives of identity at an Early Byzantine necropolis in Egypt (Kristin South).- Chapter 15. Concluding remarks (Anastasia Christophilopoulou).- Index.

• Erscheinungsdatum: 02.01.2026
• Autor/Autorin: Gabriella Longhitano
• Reihe: History (R0)
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• Verlag: SPRINGER
• Sprache: Englisch
• Umfang: 300 Seiten
• ISBN: 9783032039064
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