Textile references

Prehistoric Map

An interactive map of prehistory

Textile references

(Use the pagesearch function in your browser (e.g. Ctrl + f) to find what you need and click on publication to jump to source link.


See also additional bibliography at http://textile-dates.uni-bonn.de/bibliography-tl.php


Barber, E. J. W. 1991. Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with Special Reference to the Aegean. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press.

Barber, E. J. W.. 1999. The Mummies of Ürümchi: [Did Europeans Migrate to China 4,000 Years Ago?]. London: Pan Books.

Bender Jørgensen, Lise, Antoinette Rast-Eicher 2015. ”Searching for the earliest wools in Europe”. NESAT XII: 67-72.

Betts, Alison, Klaas van der Borg, Ari de Jong, Catherine McClintock, and Mark van Strydonck. 1994. “Early Cotton in North Arabia.” Journal of Archaeological Science 21 (4): 489–99. doi:10.1006/jasc.1994.1049.

Cameron et al.; Cartwright; Marshall et al. 2016. in Andy M. Jones (ed.): Preserved in the Peat - Chapter 4; 6 and Appendix B.

Cardon, Dominique. 2007. Natural Dyes: Sources, Tradition, Technology and Science. London: Archetype.

Frei, Karin M., Irene Skals, Margarita Gleba, Henriette Lyngstrøm. 2009. ”The Huldremose Iron Age textiles, Denmark: an attempt to define their provenance applying the strontium isotope system” in Journal of Archaeological Science 36(9):1965-1971.

Frei, Karin Margarita, Ulla Mannering, Kristian Kristiansen, et al. 2015. ”Tracing the dynamic life story of a Bronze Age Female”. Scientific Reports 5. doi:10.1038/srep10431.

Gleba, Margarita. 2009. “Early Twined Textiles from Sugokleya (Ukraine).” Archaeological Textiles Newsletter 48: 7–10.

Gleba, Margarita & Ulla Mannering 2012 (eds.), Textiles and textile production in Europe from prehistory to AD 400, (Ancient Textiles Series vol. 11). Oxford: Oxbow Books. 

Grierson, S. 1986. The Colour Cauldron. Perth: S. Grierson.

Grömer, Karina, (ed.) 2013. Textiles from Hallstatt: Weaving Culture in Bronze Age and Iron Age Salt Mines = Textilien Aus Hallstatt ; Gewebte Kultur Aus Dem Bronze- Und Eisenzeitlichen Salzbergwerk. Archaeolingua 29. Budapest: Archaeolingua Alapítvány.

Khattak, Shahnaz Parveen, Shabana Rafique, Tanveer Hussain, Faiza Inayat, and Bashir Ahmad. 2015. “Colour Fastness and Tensile Strength of Cotton Fabric Dyed with Natural Extracts of Alkanna Tinctoria by Continuous Dyeing Technique.” Journal-Chemical Society of Pakistan No. 5 (Vol. 37): 903–9.

Koren, Zvi C. 2006. “Color My World: A Personal Scientific Odyssey into the Art of Ancient Dyes.” In For the Sake of Humanity: Essays in Honour of Clemens N. Nathan, edited by Clemens N. Nathan, Alan Stephens, and Raphael Walden, 1st ed, 155–89. Leiden ; Boston: Martinus Nijhoff.

Liu, Jian, Chika Mouri, Richard Laursen, Feng Zhao, Yang Zhou, and Wenying Li. 2013. “Characterization of Dyes in Ancient Textiles from Yingpan, Xinjiang.” Journal of Archaeological Science 40 (12): 4444–49. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2013.06.034.

Mannering, Ulla, Göran Possnert, Jan Heinemeier & Margarita Gleba. 2010. Dating Danish textiles and skins from bog finds by means of 14C AMS. Journal of Archaeological Science 37(2). 261–268. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2009.09.037

Mannering, Ulla, and Lise Ræder Knudsen. 2013. “Hammerum: The find of a century.” In NESAT XI: The North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles XI ; 10 - 13 May 2011 in Esslingen am Neckar, edited by Johanna Banck-Burgess and Carla Nübold, 157–60. Rahden, Westf: Leidorf.

Mouri, Chika, and Richard Laursen. 2012. “Identification of Anthraquinone Markers for Distinguishing Rubia Species in Madder-Dyed Textiles by HPLC.” Microchimica Acta 179 (1–2): 105–13. doi:10.1007/s00604-012-0868-4.

Murphy TM, Ben-Yehuda N, Taylor RE, Southon JR.  2011.  ”Hemp in Ancient Rope and Fabric from the Christmas Cave in Israel:  Talmudic Background and DNA Sequence Identification” in Journal of Archaeological Science 38: 2579-2588

Must Farm - Dig Diary 6: Textiles at Must Farm

Riley, Mara. 1997. Clothing of the Ancient Celts - Dyes & Dyeing.

Scharff, Annemette Bruselius, and Dorte V. P. Sommer. 2016. “Indfarvning Med Fermenterede Planter.” Edited by Kirsten Rykind-Eriksen. Dragtjournalen 10 (14): 25–31.

Shishlina, N. I., O.V. Orfinskaya, and V.P. Golikov. 2005. “Headdress from the Catacomb Culture Grave of the Shakhaevskaya Burial Ground.” Archaeological Textile Newsletter, no. 40: 6–9.

Shishlina, N.I., O.V. Orfinskaya, and V.P. Golikov. 2003. “Bronze Age Textiles from the North Caucasus: New Evidence of Fourth Millennium BC Fibres and Fabrics.” Oxford Journal of Archaeology 22 (4): 331–44. doi:10.1046/j.1468-0092.2003.00191.x.

Vajanto, Krista. 2015. Dyes and Dyeing Methods in Late Iron Age Finland. Helsinki: University of Helsinki.

Vanden Berghe, I., Margarita Gleba, and Ulla Mannering. 2009. “Towards the Identification of Dyestuffs in Early Iron Age Scandinavian Peat Bog Textiles.” Journal of Archaeological Science 36 (9): 1910–21. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2009.04.019.

Zhang, Xian, Irene Good, and Richard Laursen. 2008. “Characterization of Dyestuffs in Ancient Textiles from Xinjiang.” Journal of Archaeological Science 35 (4): 1095–1103. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2007.08.001.