Textile tools from the Ager Faliscus Area in the Iron Age: Are they always functional tools?

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Published in Origini n. XL/2017. Rivista annuale del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità – “Sapienza” Università di Roma | Preistoria e protostoria delle civiltà antiche – Prehistory and protohistory of ancient civilizations | Textiles and their making were important parts of all fields of life in ancient Italy. Evidence for textiles in Central Italy is scarce and rare due to their extremely poor preservation. The numerous presence of textile tools is the main evidence for spinning and weaving activities. These – although their exact function is not always obvious – permit us to gain valuable information about many and varied aspects of textile production in the pre-Roman Italy. The focus of this paper is the equipment of textile tools coming from the Ager Faliscus of the 8th-5th centuries BC and the differences between the finds from different archaeological contexts. Many textile tools were discovered in the female burials excavated at Narce and Falerii and dated...

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