Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 31/1. (2011)
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38 P. Mazäre The same was observed on the textile imprints of twined structures from Vinca and Turdas finds at Miercurea Sibiului, Limba, Turdas (which we had the opportunity to study). As in Divostin the structures from Romania were created without the use of a tension frame as it was noted by F. Médard (2010, 145) in relation to Neolithic twined textiles from Switzerland (4th-3rd millennium BC). She noticed also that the twined textiles were made by tree bast, as opposed to the woven textiles using flax fibres, very finely spun (Bazzanella Et Al. 2003; Médard 2010). Next to the differences in technology and usage, these observations on the raw material used are of great importance. Recent archaeobotanical studies reveal that flax was cultivated during Neolithic in order to obtain flax oil and not necessarily as a textile plant (Herbig-Maier 2011; Maier 2011) its fibres being poorly used in this way. According to F. Médard (2010, 146- 150) the connection between flax, seen as an exceptional raw material, and weaving, seen as a ‘prestige technology’14 would have created a notable difference in both quality and symbolic meaning in comparison to the other textiles around. In other terms woven textiles were prestige goods, used only by certain persons and only in particular circumstances. LEGEND Fig. 10. The distribution map of Neolithic and Cooper Age textile structures/techniques identified in Romania. Within this context we wonder what the significance was of weaved textiles imprints found on pottery and what do they reveal? In our opinion they represent a proof of a technological choice by which certain flexible structures, like matting or textiles were intentionally used as part of the technological processes involved in the creation of pottery.15 It is therefore hard to 14 According to the concept definition of Hayden 1998. 15 As this option is determined by a pre-existing cultural or technological tradition it can be found or not in different but contemporary communities, an explanation to the fact that textile impressions are not a constant feature throughout the pottery of Neolithic and the Copper Age. Alba lulia-Lumea Nouä 'orlentu Mare Tärgu Оспа-Podei Plain weave Warp-faced weave Twining Simple needle looping Twisted needle looping Interlinking
