The Textile Revolution in Bronze Age Europe

Serena Sabatini is Associate Professor at the Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden and a scholar of Bronze Age trade and exchange networks in Europe and in the Mediterranean area. Her current research focuses on Bronze Age textile production and wool economy. Sophie Bergerbrant is Associate Professor in Archaeology at the Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden. Her main areas of research are the Early and Middle Bronze Age in Northern and Central Europe relating to textile archaeology, costume, mobility, gender, and embodiment.

• 1. Textile production and specialization in Bronze Age Europe Serena Sabatini and Sophie Bergerbrant; 2. The Wool Zone in prehistory and protohistory Eva Andersson Strand and Marie-Louise Nosch; 3. Weaving in Bronze Age Italy: The Case of the Terramare Settlement at Montale Serena Sabatini; 4. Loom weights in Bronze Age Central Europe Jutta Kneisel and Stefanie Schaefer; 5. Textiles remains in Polish Iron Age cemeteries Joanna Słomska and Łukasz Antosik; 6. To let textiles talk: fibre identification and technological analyses of prehistoric textiles from Denmark Irene Skals; 7. The challenge of textiles in early Bronze Age burials: fragments of magnificence Susanna Harris; 8. Textile ceramics as a complement to textile research Stefanie Schaefer and Jutta Kneisel; 9. Prehistoric transhumance in the Northern Mediterranean Francesco Carrer and Mara Migliavacca; 10. Wool production and the evidence of strontium isotope analyses Karin M. Frei; 11. Wool textiles in the early Nordic Bronze Age: local or traded? Sophie Bergerbrant; 12. Archaeological wool textiles – a window into ancient sheep genetics? Luise Ørsted Brandt and Morten Allentoft; 13. Skin, furs, and textiles: mass spectrometry-based analysis of ancient protein residues Fabiana Di Gianvincenzo, Clara Granzotto and Enrico Cappellini; 14. Wool in the Bronze Age. Concluding reflections Kristian Kristiansen and Marie-Louise Stig Sørensen.