Science dedicated to the study of archaeological textiles
Channel: Recording Archaeology
Date: 2015-10-09

Science dedicated to the study of archaeological textiles : the
example of a workshop in Brandes-en-Oisans (12th-14th c,
France) and Yakuts graves (18th-19th c, Siberia)

Emeline Retournard1, Isaline Saunier2
1UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE, UMR 6298 ARTEHIS, 2EHESS
The study of archaeological textiles is a discipine generally still unknow. Through the development of scientific methods the
study of textiles became advanced. This paper offers to explain several of these methods used for the archaeological textiles
found into two sites : a workshop for the washing of the silver ore in Brandes-en-Oisans (12th-14th c., France) and several
Yakuts graves (18th-19th c., Siberia).