Beyond cloth and cordage
Subtitle: archaeological textile research in the Americas
By: edited by Penelope Ballard Drooker and Laurie D. Webster.
Contributors: Drooker, Penelope B.; Webster, Laurie D., 1952-
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Salt Lake City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
Subjects: Indian textile fabrics; Indian baskets; Indian cordage; Archaeology -- Methodology; Indians -- Antiquities; America -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-326) and index.
Table of contents: title: Archaeological textile research in the Americas / Laurie D. Webster, with Penelope Ballard Drooker; title: Handling archaeological textile remains in the field and laboratory / Jenna Tedrick Kuttruff and Mary Strickland-Olsen; title: Microanalytical methods for studying prehistoric textile fibers / Kathryn A. Jakes; title: Prehistoric textiles : production, function, semiotics / Annette G. Ericksen, Kathryn A. Jakes, and Virginia S. Wimberley; title: Spinning and plying : anthropological directions / C. Jill Minar; title: Spin and twist as cultural markers : a New England perspective on native fiber industries / James B. Petersen and Jack A. Wolford; title: Ancient matting from spirit cave, Nevada : technical implications / Catherine S. Fowler, Eugene M. Hattori, and Amy J. Dansie; title: The Mexican connection : a study of sociotechnical change in perishable manufacture and food production in prehistoric New Mexico / D. C. Hyland and J. M. Adovasio; title: Revealing clothes : textiles of the Upper Ruin, Tonto National Monument / Lynn S. Teague; title: The economics of Pueblo textile production and exchange in colonial New Mexico / Laurie D. Webster; title: Textile research from the Mesoamerican perspective / Patricia R. Anawalt; title: Andean textiles from village and cemetery : Caserones in the Tarapac Valley, North Chile / Amy Oakland Rodman; title: Prehistoric Andean ethnicity and status : the textile evidence; title: Vicki Cassman.