“HUMANIZATION OF BUILDINGS. THE NEOLITHIC RITUAL OF BURYING THE SACRED” Mehmet Özdogan TO WEAVE OR NOT TO WEAVE? TEXTILE PRODUCTION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A TECHNOLOGICAL HABITUS IN CYPRIOTE PREHISTORY Luca Bombardieri, Giulia Muti SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT: A COMPARISON OF 6TH MILLENNIUM BCE COMMUNITIES IN SOUTHERN CAUCASIA AND NORTHWESTERN IRAN Barbara Helwing, Tevekkül Aliyev CHRONOLOGY (AND CHRONOLOGIES) OF THE KURA-ARAXES CULTURE IN THE SOUTHERN CAUCASUS: AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH THROUGH...

Textile archaeology represents a rather elusive field of investigation, just as the products of textile activities archaeologically are. The scarcity of information on Cypriot Neolithic and Chalcolithic adds to this inevitable elusiveness. These two aspects may have led scholars to underestimate the importance of the few available pre-BA documents, which, however, suggest an initial textile production as early as the Neolithic. Additionally, besides shedding some light on a regional aspect...

This book examines questions surrounding body adornments and its link to identity in archaeology, looking at theoretical and interpretive frameworks that are relevant to the study of different categories of personal ornaments. Identity is a crucial topic in archaeology where its concept is investigated through the study of many categories of material culture. As self-representation, identity constitutes a choice through which an individual or a group want to be seen by others. The volume c...