Achaeometrical Research in Hungary II., 1988

ANCIENT TECHNOLOGY - Tünde HORVÁTH - Erzsébet MARTON: Prehistoric spinning and weaving objects from the Carpathian basin (Hungary)

The fashion and technology of weaving at a given site must also be observed. Why and how did people use ring-shaped loom weights at Velem - Szent Vid? Are there identical implements in settlement materials from Gór, Sopron, Szálacska, Regöly, Süttő etc.? Why are pyramid shaped loom weights concentrated in Transdanubia, in the Western part of the Carpathian Basin? Why are they absent from Middle Bronze Age tellsettlements in the Great Hungarian Plain? We must learn more about the connection between sheep/goat keeping and woolen textiles. More details are also needed concerning housework that remained the same for many centuries and always included spinning, weaving, cooking, feeding and giving birth. We do hope that the collection of additional finds and the analysis of the weaving process will take us closer to the solution in the near future. Bibiliography Amiet, P. 1961: La Glyptique mésopotamienne archaïque. Paris. Barber, E.J.W. 1990: Prehistoric textiles. Princeton. Bíró, M. T. 1994: The Bone Objects of the Roman Collection. Budapest. Bronzezeit in Ungarn 1993: Forschungen und Teil-Siedlungen an Donau und Theiss. Katalog. Déroche, С. D. n. d.: Textile Production in Britain during the first Milleneum B.C. Dissertation, Cambridge, Faculty of Arch, and Anthr. Ember, M. 1952: Die Textilabdrücke auf den tószeger Gefassen aus der Bronzezeit. Arcta Arch. Hung. 1952/2. Glory, A. 1959: Débris de corde paléolithique á la Grotte de Lascaux. Mémoires de la Société Préhistorique Française 5. Hochberg, В. 1979: Spin Span Spun: ¥azt and folklore for spinners. Santa Cruz, Calif Hoffmann, M. 1964: The Warp-weighted loom. Studies in the History and Technology of an ancient Implement. Norway. Kalicz, K. 1985: Kőkori falu Aszódon. Aszód. Kalicz-Schreiber, R. 1984: Szimbolikus ábrázolások korabronzkori edényeken. Arch. Ért. 1984. Kalicz-Schreiber, R. 1995: Bronzkori umatemető Szigetszentmiklós határában. Ráckevei Muz. Füz. Marton, E. 1996: Agyagtárgyak a velemi Szt. Vidről. Pápai Múz. Ért. 6. Marton, E. 1996: In I. Poroszlai ed.: Excavations in Százhalombatta. 1989-1995. Matrica Múzeum. Százhalombatta, pp. 25-33. Marton, E. 1995: Velem - Szent Vid: In E. Jerem and A. Lippert eds.: Die Osthallstattkultur. Symposium Sopron 1995. Archaeolingua 7: pp. 267-273. Raczky, P. 1976: A Körös kultúra leletei Tiszajenön. Arch. Ért. 1976. 255