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Małgorzata Siennicka is an Associate Professor at the Saxo Institute, University Copenhagen and holds a PhD in Aegean archaeology from Warsaw University. Her research interests focus on the Neolithic and Bronze Age Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, prehistoric cloth and textile production, craftsmanship, balance weights and metrology, settlements and architecture. She was awarded with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship at The Centre for Textile Research at the University of Copenhagen (2013-2017). In 2013-2017 Małgorzata Siennicka directed an international research project “First Textiles” at the Centre for Textile Research in Copenhagen. Lorenz Rahmstorf is a Professor in the Department of Prehistory and Early History at the University of Göttingen. His research interests focus on the third and second millennia BC Aegean, Europe and West Asia and more specifically on weight metrology, early trade, textile production, transfer of innovations and urbanisation processes. He has obtained an MA (Bristol), PhD (Heidelberg) and Habilitation (Mainz), and participates in various international research projects. In 2015 he was awarded an European Research Council Consolidator Grant to lead a 5-years project “Weight and value. Weight metrology and its economic and social impact on Bronze Age Europe, West and South Asia”. Agata Ulanowska is an Assistant Professor in the Centre for Research on Ancient Technologies of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences in Łódź and Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw (sabbatical). Her research interests focus on the Bronze Age Aegean, textile production and technology, experimental and experience archaeology and Aegean seals and sealing practices. She holds a PhD in Aegean archaeology from the University of Warsaw. In 2015-2017 she was awarded with FUGA post-doctoral grant of the National Science Centre for the project “Textile production in Bronze Age Greece – comparative studies of the Aegean weaving techniques”.
First Textiles has succeeded in its aim to bring together recent studies in early textiles. In terms of academic level, this volume will suit a specialist audience who are either already versant with archaeological textiles or are potentially seeking to find information or inspiration on the analysis of textile evidence in their study region. -- The Prehistoric Society [ ... ]the publication makes an important corpus of data accessible [ ... a] valuable [read] for any researcher interested in textiles and their potential for archaeological research. -- European Journal of Archaeology First textiles is an attractive book bringing together data on early textiles and textile production from all over Europe. Papers on the Iberian Peninsula and the Balkans are particularly welcome, as little from these areas has previously been published in English. -- Antiquity Undoubtedly this is a book that researchers, graduate students and university libraries will want, as well as textile craftspeople and textile scholars. -- Ornament Magazine
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