Textile production in central Europe during Neolithic and Aeneolithic period and its gradual transformation
Abstract
The poster deals with textile production and its gradual transformation during the Neolithic and Aeneolithic periods. Territorially, it covers the region of Moravia and southwestern Slovakia.
The study is done by closer attention paid to the tools traditionally connected with textile production - spindle whorls and loom weights. Such tools were collected in a database and the gained data are presented here in graphs.
The quantity of them, their types and weight, can tell us a lot about the past practices in textile production. There are only a few spindle whorls recovered from the Neolithic period in comparison to those of Aeneolithic period, but differences can be still outlined.
While throughout the Neolithic period the types of spindle whorls are more conservative, during the Eneolithic period we observe many new types of spindle whorls, with a surprisingly balanced ratio. This trend can be observed all throughout the region, but especially on sites located high within the landscape.
Principally, two aspects will be considered in the poster - a chronological and a territorial one. The analysis of the various aspects of the transformation in textile production and the related social change between the Neolithic and Aeneolithic period is based on actual objects handled by me.
Based on literature, this will be compared with the territory of the present-day Hungary. Through a comparison of spindle whorls from these two areas, I would like to clarify whether there are similarities, how types and distribution of the spindle whorls spread from one area to another, and to describe main principles of textile production and its transformation and transmission according to regions in the Carpathian Basin.