The aim of this contribution is to bring scholarly attention to an important early textile find, excavated in the northern Crimea in 1978 and published in Russian in 1990. The Catacomb Culture (c. 2500–1950 BCE) burial discovered near the village of Bolotne of Dzhankoi region in the north of the Crimea, contained two individuals accompanied by four wooden wagon wheels, bronze, ceramic and stone burial goods, and a cloth sack containing grain. Relatively large fragments of the sack fabric survive due to unusual preservation conditions. The fabric was created using weft-twining technique using plied threads made of locally available plants. In addition to the overview of the find itself, we present the new Scanning Electron Microscope analyses of the fibre and place the find within a broader chronological and geographical context.
Textiles for storage: A twined fabric grain sack from a Bronze Age (Catacomb Culture) burial in Bolotne, Crimea
Margarita Gleba
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Abstract
The aim of this contribution is to bring scholarly attention to an important early textile find, excavated in the northern Crimea in 1978 and published in Russian in 1990. The Catacomb Culture (c. 2500–1950 BCE) burial discovered near the village of Bolotne of Dzhankoi region in the north of the Crimea, contained two individuals accompanied by four wooden wagon wheels, bronze, ceramic and stone burial goods, and a cloth sack containing grain. Relatively large fragments of the sack fabric survive due to unusual preservation conditions. The fabric was created using weft-twining technique using plied threads made of locally available plants. In addition to the overview of the find itself, we present the new Scanning Electron Microscope analyses of the fibre and place the find within a broader chronological and geographical context.
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