Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 31/1. (2011)

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Textile Structures and Techniques Identified in Neolithic and Copper Age Sites from Romania

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believe that rare and valuable textiles would have been used within the pottery manufacturing process, as it is more likely that they used ordinary textiles, some worn out or even fragmentary. From this perspective the high frequency of imprints can be considered a proof of the common and every day use of textiles. The Romanian finds also point out that, by the end of the 5th millennium to the mid 4th millennium BC, woven textiles were quite commonly used and thus available for pottery manufacturing. As we have seen, the earliest discoveries show that weaving was known before but was not widely spread, probably because the main method at hand was twining, a more ancient technique, with roots going back to Palaeolithic. We assume that due to the social, economical and cultural changes brought on by the Copper Age weaving has moved up becoming a more important activity and also a source of trade goods. In this context weaved textiles would finally become objects of broad circulation that would be used by different sort of individuals.