Cedrus

Yazarlar: Mehmet Ali YILMAZ, Emrullah KALKAN

Konular:Tarih

Anahtar Kelimeler:Textile Production,Loom Weights,Spindle Whorls,Bronze Age,Survey

Özet: : A part of the archaeological material culture discovered during the Uşak Protohistoric Survey Project (UPDAP) were weaving tools. Although in the UPDAP weaving tools comprise the smallest number of finds, they represent a rich collection from the Bronze Age in Western Anatolia in terms of quantity and varie¬ties of forms. During the surveys, a small number of complete tools were found in addition to mostly broken ones. These tools, archaeologically, demonstrate that textile production was one of the livelihood in prehis-toric times. The history of weaving production, which probably began in the Paleolithic period, even predates production activities such as pottery and mining. The weaving tools from the UPDAP, are divided into two groups: loom weights and spindle whorls. While the loom weights are divided into three different categories belonging to crescent, disc-shaped, and pyramidal shapes, the spindle whorls are mainly double-conical and spherical in shape. They are mostly attributed to the Early and Middle Bronze Ages, according to relative dating made of the pottery and other finds, which were documented at the the same sites, as well as from the similarities they show with the weaving tools unearthed in excavated and well-dated Western Anatolian settle¬ments.

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