Understanding Textile Production at Cividade de Bagunte

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Iron Age of Northwest Portugal: Leftovers of Behavior" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Textiles are a near ubiquitous feature of human society from antiquity through present-day. Unfortunately, most places around the world do not have the environmental conditions that allow for the preservation of textiles and the many tools associated with textile production. At Cividade de Bagunte, the only evidence for textile production consists of loom weights and spindle whorls, which represent only a small fraction of the tools that would have been necessary to produce textiles. In this paper, I analyze the spindle whorls and loom weights recovered during excavations at Bagunte, as well as what is missing from the archaeological record, to make broad interpretations regarding the modes of textile production at the settlement in order to understand how Bagunte’s inhabitants produced textiles from raw materials.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Iron Age of Northwest Portugal: Leftovers of Behavior   •
• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)

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Abstract Id(s): 32628