Erimi Laonin tou Porakou. A Textile Community of Practice in Middle Bronze Age Cyprus

Ongoing excavations at the Middle Bronze Age site of Erimi Laonin tou Porakou (Cyprus) have been revealing substantial evidence for textile production and clues of its economic impact and social implications to this prehistoric community. The analysis of the architecture and artefacts recovered in...

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Main Authors: Luca Bombardieri, Giulia Muti
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Language:deu
Published: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences 2018-12-01
Series:Fasciculi Archaeologiae Historicae
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Online Access:https://journals.iaepan.pl/fah/article/view/2141
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description Ongoing excavations at the Middle Bronze Age site of Erimi Laonin tou Porakou (Cyprus) have been revealing substantial evidence for textile production and clues of its economic impact and social implications to this prehistoric community. The analysis of the architecture and artefacts recovered in the workshop complex, in combination with archaeobotanical evidence, has allowed us to identify the presence of different textile activities, including dyeing. An additional textile data-set comes from coeval extra-mural funerary contexts pertaining to the Erimi settlement. As a key-site for understanding textile production during the Middle Cypriot period (MC), Erimi offers a privileged viewpoint on a large array of social dynamics connected to textile work. This paper will discuss the impact of textile production in the transmission of knowledge and expertise, and in the construction of the community mindset by applying the model of Communities of Practice (CoP) as a theoretical background.
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spelling doaj-art-bfa0cd83d1f049a48dc8f52d5cac4dc12025-08-20T03:28:29ZdeuInstitute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of SciencesFasciculi Archaeologiae Historicae0860-00072719-70692018-12-013110.23858/FAH31.2018.002Erimi Laonin tou Porakou. A Textile Community of Practice in Middle Bronze Age CyprusLuca Bombardieri0Giulia Muti1Università di Torino, Dipartimento Studi Umanistici. Missione archeologica italiana a Erimi (Cipro) University of Manchester, PhD student. Missione archeologica italiana a Erimi (Cipro) Ongoing excavations at the Middle Bronze Age site of Erimi Laonin tou Porakou (Cyprus) have been revealing substantial evidence for textile production and clues of its economic impact and social implications to this prehistoric community. The analysis of the architecture and artefacts recovered in the workshop complex, in combination with archaeobotanical evidence, has allowed us to identify the presence of different textile activities, including dyeing. An additional textile data-set comes from coeval extra-mural funerary contexts pertaining to the Erimi settlement. As a key-site for understanding textile production during the Middle Cypriot period (MC), Erimi offers a privileged viewpoint on a large array of social dynamics connected to textile work. This paper will discuss the impact of textile production in the transmission of knowledge and expertise, and in the construction of the community mindset by applying the model of Communities of Practice (CoP) as a theoretical background. https://journals.iaepan.pl/fah/article/view/2141Community of Practicetextile productiontextile dyeingspindle whorlssymbolismErimi Laonin tou Porakou
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Erimi Laonin tou Porakou. A Textile Community of Practice in Middle Bronze Age Cyprus
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Community of Practice
textile production
textile dyeing
spindle whorls
symbolism
Erimi Laonin tou Porakou
title Erimi Laonin tou Porakou. A Textile Community of Practice in Middle Bronze Age Cyprus
title_full Erimi Laonin tou Porakou. A Textile Community of Practice in Middle Bronze Age Cyprus
title_fullStr Erimi Laonin tou Porakou. A Textile Community of Practice in Middle Bronze Age Cyprus
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title_short Erimi Laonin tou Porakou. A Textile Community of Practice in Middle Bronze Age Cyprus
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topic Community of Practice
textile production
textile dyeing
spindle whorls
symbolism
Erimi Laonin tou Porakou
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