Dr Wolfram Schier is a Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at Freie Universitat Berlin Susan Pollock is currently professor at the Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie at the Freie Universität Berlin. She previously held a position as Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY. She has longstanding research interests in the village and early state societies of Western Asia and has conducted field projects in Iran, Iraq, and Turkey as well as Turkmenistan. Her recent work has involved much more recent periods, with field projects on sites of the 20th century in and around Berlin. She researches processes of subjectivation, commensality and food-related practices, political economy, and feminist approaches to the past. She is the author of_ Ancient Mesopotamia: The Eden that Never Was_, editor of Between Feasts and Daily Meals. Toward an Archaeology of Commensal Spaces, and co-editor (with Reinhard Bernbeck and Kamyar Abdi) of The 2003 Excavations at Tol-e Baši, Iran: Social Life in a Neolithic Village.

• Preface1 Introduction2 The Neolithic Revolution in the Fertile Crescent and the origins of fiber technology3 Early Wool of Mesopotamia, ca. 7000-3000 BC. Between prestige and economy4 Continuity and Discontinuity in Neolithic and Chalcolithic Linen Textile Production inthe Southern Levant5 Fibers, Fabrics and Looms: A link between animals fibers and warp weighted loomsin the Iron Age Levant6 An archaic, male exclusive, loom from Oman7 The TOPOI Research Group "Textile Revolution" - Archaeological background and amulti-proxy approach8 Fibres to Fibres. Thread to Thread. Comparing Diachronic Changers in Large SpindleWhorl Samples9 Finding the woolly sheep: meta-analyses of archaeozoological data from Southwest-Asia and Southeast-Europe10 Taming the Fibres: Traditions and Innovations in the Textile Cultures of NeolithicGreece11 Ex Oriente Ars? "Anatolianizing" spindle whorls in the Early Bronze Age Aegeanislands and their implications for fiber crafts12 Different skills for different fibres? The use of flax and wool in textile technology ofBronze Age Greece in light of archaeological experiments13 Neolithic flax production in the pre-Alpine region - Knowledge increase since the19th century14 Underrated. Textile-making in Neolithic lakeside settlements in the Northern AlpineForeland15 Textile materials in the Mesolithic and Neolithic and their processing16 Raw materials, Textile Technologies, Innovations and Cultural Response in CentralEurope in the 3rd to 1st mill. BC17 First genetic evidence for the origin of Central European sheep (Ovis ammon f.aries) populations from two different routes of Neolithisation with contributions to thehistory woolly sheep18 Sheep Husbandry in the Ancient Near East

The research will be a valuable resource for those who study the history of clothing and weaving, as well as ethnographers and archaeologists.

Dr Wolfram Schier is a Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at Freie Universitat Berlin Susan Pollock is currently professor at the Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie at the Freie Universität Berlin. She previously held a position as Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY. She has longstanding research interests in the village and early state societies of Western Asia and has conducted field projects in Iran, Iraq, and Turkey as well as Turkmenistan. Her recent work has involved much more recent periods, with field projects on sites of the 20th century in and around Berlin. She researches processes of subjectivation, commensality and food-related practices, political economy, and feminist approaches to the past. She is the author of_ Ancient Mesopotamia: The Eden that Never Was_, editor of Between Feasts and Daily Meals. Toward an Archaeology of Commensal Spaces, and co-editor (with Reinhard Bernbeck and Kamyar Abdi) of The 2003 Excavations at Tol-e Baši, Iran: Social Life in a Neolithic Village.

• Preface1 Introduction2 The Neolithic Revolution in the Fertile Crescent and the origins of fiber technology3 Early Wool of Mesopotamia, ca. 7000-3000 BC. Between prestige and economy4 Continuity and Discontinuity in Neolithic and Chalcolithic Linen Textile Production inthe Southern Levant5 Fibers, Fabrics and Looms: A link between animals fibers and warp weighted loomsin the Iron Age Levant6 An archaic, male exclusive, loom from Oman7 The TOPOI Research Group "Textile Revolution" - Archaeological background and amulti-proxy approach8 Fibres to Fibres. Thread to Thread. Comparing Diachronic Changers in Large SpindleWhorl Samples9 Finding the woolly sheep: meta-analyses of archaeozoological data from Southwest-Asia and Southeast-Europe10 Taming the Fibres: Traditions and Innovations in the Textile Cultures of NeolithicGreece11 Ex Oriente Ars? "Anatolianizing" spindle whorls in the Early Bronze Age Aegeanislands and their implications for fiber crafts12 Different skills for different fibres? The use of flax and wool in textile technology ofBronze Age Greece in light of archaeological experiments13 Neolithic flax production in the pre-Alpine region - Knowledge increase since the19th century14 Underrated. Textile-making in Neolithic lakeside settlements in the Northern AlpineForeland15 Textile materials in the Mesolithic and Neolithic and their processing16 Raw materials, Textile Technologies, Innovations and Cultural Response in CentralEurope in the 3rd to 1st mill. BC17 First genetic evidence for the origin of Central European sheep (Ovis ammon f.aries) populations from two different routes of Neolithisation with contributions to thehistory woolly sheep18 Sheep Husbandry in the Ancient Near East

The research will be a valuable resource for those who study the history of clothing and weaving, as well as ethnographers and archaeologists.

Dr Wolfram Schier is a Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at Freie Universitat Berlin Susan Pollock is currently professor at the Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie at the Freie Universität Berlin. She previously held a position as Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY. She has longstanding research interests in the village and early state societies of Western Asia and has conducted field projects in Iran, Iraq, and Turkey as well as Turkmenistan. Her recent work has involved much more recent periods, with field projects on sites of the 20th century in and around Berlin. She researches processes of subjectivation, commensality and food-related practices, political economy, and feminist approaches to the past. She is the author of_ Ancient Mesopotamia: The Eden that Never Was_, editor of Between Feasts and Daily Meals. Toward an Archaeology of Commensal Spaces, and co-editor (with Reinhard Bernbeck and Kamyar Abdi) of The 2003 Excavations at Tol-e Baši, Iran: Social Life in a Neolithic Village.

• Preface1 Introduction2 The Neolithic Revolution in the Fertile Crescent and the origins of fiber technology3 Early Wool of Mesopotamia, ca. 7000-3000 BC. Between prestige and economy4 Continuity and Discontinuity in Neolithic and Chalcolithic Linen Textile Production inthe Southern Levant5 Fibers, Fabrics and Looms: A link between animals fibers and warp weighted loomsin the Iron Age Levant6 An archaic, male exclusive, loom from Oman7 The TOPOI Research Group "Textile Revolution" - Archaeological background and amulti-proxy approach8 Fibres to Fibres. Thread to Thread. Comparing Diachronic Changers in Large SpindleWhorl Samples9 Finding the woolly sheep: meta-analyses of archaeozoological data from Southwest-Asia and Southeast-Europe10 Taming the Fibres: Traditions and Innovations in the Textile Cultures of NeolithicGreece11 Ex Oriente Ars? "Anatolianizing" spindle whorls in the Early Bronze Age Aegeanislands and their implications for fiber crafts12 Different skills for different fibres? The use of flax and wool in textile technology ofBronze Age Greece in light of archaeological experiments13 Neolithic flax production in the pre-Alpine region - Knowledge increase since the19th century14 Underrated. Textile-making in Neolithic lakeside settlements in the Northern AlpineForeland15 Textile materials in the Mesolithic and Neolithic and their processing16 Raw materials, Textile Technologies, Innovations and Cultural Response in CentralEurope in the 3rd to 1st mill. BC17 First genetic evidence for the origin of Central European sheep (Ovis ammon f.aries) populations from two different routes of Neolithisation with contributions to thehistory woolly sheep18 Sheep Husbandry in the Ancient Near East

The research will be a valuable resource for those who study the history of clothing and weaving, as well as ethnographers and archaeologists.