Agata Ulanowska
Research projects:
PI: ExplorTIC: Exploring Textile Imprints on Clay from the 3rd and the 2nd Millennia BCE: Advancing Cutting-Edge Research and Documentation Protocols with Case Studies of Diverse Textile Consumption Contexts, SONATA BIS 13, NCN, ID: UMO-2023/50/E/HS3/00094
PI at the beneficiary University of Warsaw: TEXTaiLES: TEXTile digitisAtIon tooLs and mEthodS for cultural heritage. Horizon REA, ID: 101158328, 2024-2027
Action Chair: EuroWeb. Europe through Textiles: Network for an integrated and interdisciplinary Humanities. COST Action CA 19131, 2020-2024, https://euroweb.uw.edu.pl/
PI: Textiles and Seals. Relations between textile production and seals and sealing practices in Bronze Age Greece, SONATA 13 programme of the National Science Centre, Poland, UMO-2017/26/D/HS3/00145, 2018-2022,
http://textileseals.uw.edu.pl
PI: ExplorTIC: Exploring Textile Imprints on Clay from the 3rd and the 2nd Millennia BCE: Advancing Cutting-Edge Research and Documentation Protocols with Case Studies of Diverse Textile Consumption Contexts, SONATA BIS 13, NCN, ID: UMO-2023/50/E/HS3/00094
PI at the beneficiary University of Warsaw: TEXTaiLES: TEXTile digitisAtIon tooLs and mEthodS for cultural heritage. Horizon REA, ID: 101158328, 2024-2027
Action Chair: EuroWeb. Europe through Textiles: Network for an integrated and interdisciplinary Humanities. COST Action CA 19131, 2020-2024, https://euroweb.uw.edu.pl/
PI: Textiles and Seals. Relations between textile production and seals and sealing practices in Bronze Age Greece, SONATA 13 programme of the National Science Centre, Poland, UMO-2017/26/D/HS3/00145, 2018-2022,
http://textileseals.uw.edu.pl
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For the book matter, please see here: https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503599915-1
The volume is organised in four parts that aim to reflect the main areas of the textile research in 2020. After the two introductory chapters (Part I: About this Volume and Textile Research in 2020), follow two chapters referring to dyes and dyeing technology in which analytical and material-based studies are linked to contextual sources (Part II: Interdisciplinarity of Colour: Dye Analyses and Dyeing Technologies). The six chapters of Part III: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Textile Tools discuss textiles and textile production starting from the analyses of tools, whether functional or as representative of technological developments or user identity. Archaeological and cultural contexts as well as textile traditions are the main topics of the six chapters in Part IV: Traditions and Contexts: Fibres, Fabrics, Techniques, Uses and Meanings. The two final chapters in Part V: Digital Tools refer to the use of digital tools in textile research, presenting two different case studies.
The entire second volume is available for DOWNLOAD at http://www.archeologia.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Sympozjum-Egejskie-2-2019.pdf
The beginning of textile manufacture is still vague, but can be traced back to the upper Palaeolithic. Important developments in textile technology, e.g. weaving, spinning with a spindle, introduction of wool, appeared in Europe and the Mediterranean throughout the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age. This book is devoted to the early textile production in Europe and the Mediterranean and aims to collect and investigate the combined evidence of textile and leather remains, tools, workplaces and textile iconography.
The chapters discuss the recent achievements in the research of ancient textiles and textile production, textile techniques such as spinning, fabric and skin manufacture, use of textile tools and experimental textile archaeology. The volume explores important cultural and social aspects of textile production, and its development.
Papers by Agata Ulanowska
With 158 formal members from 32 participating countries and altogether 382 participants, EuroWeb has already set up a prominent and active community exploring textiles and their formative roles in both present and past societies. With this contribution, we wish to present a mid-term report of the EuroWeb activities undertaken in years 2020–2022, as well as introduce the COST Actions scheme to the ATR readers and, thereby, invite even more participants to join us for the remaining two years.
Eleven motifs related to textile production are recognised in the imagery of MBA seals from Crete, ranging from the flax plant and the ‘woolly animal’, to fibre combing, purple dyeing, spinning, and weaving using loom weights and perhaps also the comb and rigid heddle. All these processes and tools are symbolically interwoven in the figure of the spider, a frequent motif in Aegean glyptic. By proposing new identifications of motifs and referents, we suggest that textile production with the material culture related to it constituted an important semantic reference reflected in the imagery of seals and the graphic forms of script signs.
For the book matter, please see here: https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503599915-1
The volume is organised in four parts that aim to reflect the main areas of the textile research in 2020. After the two introductory chapters (Part I: About this Volume and Textile Research in 2020), follow two chapters referring to dyes and dyeing technology in which analytical and material-based studies are linked to contextual sources (Part II: Interdisciplinarity of Colour: Dye Analyses and Dyeing Technologies). The six chapters of Part III: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Textile Tools discuss textiles and textile production starting from the analyses of tools, whether functional or as representative of technological developments or user identity. Archaeological and cultural contexts as well as textile traditions are the main topics of the six chapters in Part IV: Traditions and Contexts: Fibres, Fabrics, Techniques, Uses and Meanings. The two final chapters in Part V: Digital Tools refer to the use of digital tools in textile research, presenting two different case studies.
The entire second volume is available for DOWNLOAD at http://www.archeologia.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Sympozjum-Egejskie-2-2019.pdf
The beginning of textile manufacture is still vague, but can be traced back to the upper Palaeolithic. Important developments in textile technology, e.g. weaving, spinning with a spindle, introduction of wool, appeared in Europe and the Mediterranean throughout the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age. This book is devoted to the early textile production in Europe and the Mediterranean and aims to collect and investigate the combined evidence of textile and leather remains, tools, workplaces and textile iconography.
The chapters discuss the recent achievements in the research of ancient textiles and textile production, textile techniques such as spinning, fabric and skin manufacture, use of textile tools and experimental textile archaeology. The volume explores important cultural and social aspects of textile production, and its development.
With 158 formal members from 32 participating countries and altogether 382 participants, EuroWeb has already set up a prominent and active community exploring textiles and their formative roles in both present and past societies. With this contribution, we wish to present a mid-term report of the EuroWeb activities undertaken in years 2020–2022, as well as introduce the COST Actions scheme to the ATR readers and, thereby, invite even more participants to join us for the remaining two years.
Eleven motifs related to textile production are recognised in the imagery of MBA seals from Crete, ranging from the flax plant and the ‘woolly animal’, to fibre combing, purple dyeing, spinning, and weaving using loom weights and perhaps also the comb and rigid heddle. All these processes and tools are symbolically interwoven in the figure of the spider, a frequent motif in Aegean glyptic. By proposing new identifications of motifs and referents, we suggest that textile production with the material culture related to it constituted an important semantic reference reflected in the imagery of seals and the graphic forms of script signs.
In this contribution, special attention is paid to the iconography and sphragistic function of Middle Bronze Age prismatic seals of soft stone from central and eastern Crete, and possibly gendered representations of textile workers. It is argued that a range of motifs related to textile production constituted a frequent and important theme in the iconography of these seals. Taking Quartier Mu at Middle Bronze Age Malia as a case study, it also discusses how seals may have been used in the administration of textile production, as well as who the seal bearers and textile producers may have been in terms of their administrative responsibilities, social status and gender, from a site-specific perspective.
archaeological experiments and tests undertaken by the author with
students of archaeology from the University of Warsaw and weavers
from the Biskupin Archaeological Museum.
specialisation, ritual production and attached palace controlled production. It is suggested that some modes of textile production may have co-existed throughout different phases of the Bronze Age in the Aegean. They reflect different paths of development of textile economics depending on the social and economic situations of the producers and their relationship to local elites and palatial administration.
Niniejszy artykuł odnosi się do koncepcji interakcji produkcji włókienniczej z innymi rzemiosłami, definiowanej ostatnio jako ‘cross-craft interactions’ (CCI) i prezentuje krótki przegląd możliwości, jakie daje zastosowanie tej koncepcji w badaniach nad włókiennictwem egejskim. Celem artykułu jest przekonanie czytelników, że jedną z przyczyn tych wzajemnych oddziaływań była, powszechna w przeszłości, wiedza o technologii włókiennictwa, a sama produkcja włókiennicza stanowiła istotny i zauważalny element życia codziennego.
W oparciu o dostępne źródła (archeologiczne, pisane i ikonograficzne) omówione zostały czynniki i procesy, które sprzyjały interakcjom produkcji włókienniczej z innymi rzemiosłami, takie jak dzielenie wspólnego miejsca pracy/warsztatu, czy korzystanie z tych samych technik wytwórczych, surowców, półproduktów i produktów. Ilustrują je relacje pomiędzy produkcją włókienniczą a produkcją statków, metalurgią oraz wytwarzaniem pigmentów i barwników.
Zapożyczenia wizualne omawiane są w odniesieniu do malarstwa ściennego. Przyjmując, że tkaniny i ubiory przedstawiane są na freskach egejskich z naturalizmem podobnym do innych typów przedstawień, analizie zostały poddane złożone wzory tekstylne. Zastosowanie siatki ułatwiającej rzemieślnikom egejskim odtworzenie najbardziej skomplikowanych wzorów, która poza tym nie występuje w malarstwie ściennym, zestawione jest z koncepcją raportu splotu i technikami wykonywania tkanin wzorzystych.
Autorka przekonuje, że technologia włókiennictwa stanowiła istotny nośnik przekazu, a oddziaływanie tekstyliów na sztukę było daleko bardziej złożone, niż proste przeniesienie wizualnie i estetycznie atrakcyjnych wzorów z tkanin na inne, nieelastyczne powierzchnie czy media.
New prospects for female academics, including archaeologists, unfolded after World War II with the communist regime in Poland. In this paper, we would like to discuss these new opportunities, taking Professor Ludwika Press (1922–2006), whom we were both honoured to know personally, as our special case study. While presenting her biography and academic achievements, especially her long-life interest in Aegean archaeology, we would like to advance a few general observations on the first post-war generation of female archaeologists at the University of Warsaw.
Ludwika Press, strongly traumatised by her individual war experiences, entered the university after a long break from formal education, similarly to many other Polish students who were born in the 1920s. Due to her intellectual maturity, she was offered an assistant position while still being a student – not unusual in the late 1940s amid the dramatic post-war lack of academics. We would like to argue that, together with her notable personal qualities, the extensively promoted communist concept of gender equality might have facilitated her academic career and those of her female peers in archaeology. However, this declarative equality did not change the underlying patriarchal structure of academic environment, nor did it fully translate into a gender neutral perception of students by these new, female archaeologist-professors.
Her other challenge we would like to address is the censorship and limitations of free research under the communist regime. With ideologically reinforced restrictions on freedom of speech, archaeologists benefited somehow from the regime’s imposed focus on material culture, but were clearly hindered by the very limited opportunities for travel and personal contact with countries and colleagues beyond the Iron Curtain.
As part of the ‘Textiles and Seals’ project, the present author has partially examined a remarkable collection of textile imprints preserved on the undersides of clay sealings stored at the Corpus der minoischen und mykenischen Siegel Archive in Heidelberg (CMS) and published the results in an open access ‘Textiles and Seals’ database (https://textileseals.uw.edu.pl/database/). This collection comprises imprints of technical textiles, i.e., a means for tying, wrapping, hanging and storing, such as threads, cords, fabrics, thongs, leather pieces, wickerwork and basketry or matting. All of them were occasionally impressed on objects subjected to sealing, such as pegs or knobs on doors and chests, rims of vases, wickerwork jar covers, baskets, small packets of inscribed parchment, etc.
In this presentation, I would like to discuss if and how these textile imprints can answer questions about the habitus of individuals involved in sealing practices. Specifically, I will analyse potential relationships between the types of textile products and their quality, the types of sealed objects, the manner of tying and wrapping, and the range of seals impressed on the front of the sealings. Phaistos, an important Middle Bronze Age administrative centre on Crete with abundant finds of sealings, provides a case study for these considerations.
stored in the CMS Archive now in Heidelberg, has been examined within the ‘Textiles and Seals’ research project and published in an open access ‘Textiles and Seals’ database (https://textileseals.uw.edu.pl/database/).
In this contribution, I would like to demonstrate new research possibilities related to the evidence recorded thus far, focusing on how this data can answer questions about individuals involved in sealing practices and their potential preferences for securing the sealed objects in a certain manner. Recognising technical textiles that might have been repeatedly used in the sealing practices at a specific site is another challenge to be discussed in this paper. Finally, I would also like to comment on possible dissemination strategies in relation to research and evidence that seems to be highly specialist and, at first glance, not attractive to a general audience.
In this paper, I present a brief overview of the notation practices that were documented within the research project ‘Textiles and Seals. Relations between Textile Production and Seal and Sealing Practices in Bronze Age Greece’ (ref. no. 2017/26/D/HS3/00145). A special focus is put on the incised tools and visual forms of the signs. While a range of potential meanings of the marked textile tools will be argued both in relation to the Aegean evidence and similar practices observed in Europe and the Mediterranean, I would like to open a discussion on potential relationships of the attested markings to script signs, especially Lin A, as well as potters’ and masons’ marks of the time.
The ‘Textiles and Seals’ research project investigates multifarious relationships between textile production and seals, and sealing practices in Bronze Age Greece. These relationships can be tracked by analysing seal-impressed textile tools, textile imprints on the undersides of clay sealings and textile production-related imagery. In order to facilitate recording and then examining this varied evidence, an online database was built specifically for this project through the services of the Digital Competence Centre of the University of Warsaw. Although data entry has not yet been completed (the last module with ‘Seal-impressed tools’ awaits its publication in December), the ‘Textiles and Seals’ database (https://textileseals.uw.edu.pl/database/) has already proved to be a powerful research tool. In this paper, I am going to discuss how to design a complex relational database in collaboration with database developers. I will also demonstrate how its search engines facilitate queries based on a significant number of records and, hitherto, unexplored combinations of data.
EuroWeb, conceived by the CTR, is a new network of scholars and stakeholders from academia, museums, conservation and cultural institutions, as well as creative industries, that already represent 31 European countries and Israel. It has received funding from the EU Horizon framework and the COST Association to operate throughout the period 2020–2024. During the panel, the action leaders will briefly discuss the challenges in building a network based on mobility and in-person contacts in the first six months of the action under the pandemic security measures. We will discuss ideas, as well as practical solutions for cooperation and networking that help implement the initial networking tools for the action. We will also discuss how the main aims of EuroWeb came into the (virtual) being, including: 1) formulating a new vision of European history based on textiles; 2) uncovering the underlying structures connected to textiles in languages, technologies and identities; 3) bridging different theoretical and methodological approaches grounded in European scholarship, and testing/disseminating new analytical and multidisciplinary methods; 4) dissolving the traditional and often obsolete and obstructive dichotomies of practice and theory through a more integrated approach of disciplines and cultural institutions; and 5) forging new notions of inclusive European identity based on a shared heritage and experience of textiles and a sense of belonging and social cohesion
In this paper, impressions from the CMS casts are discussed as a potential source of information about the raw materials and types of products used in multiple sealing practices in Early and Middle Bronze Age. Challenges in identifying specific fibres on the basis of their impressions on clay (e.g. various plant fibres and animal origin products, but apparently not wool), as well as the selection of raw materials used for making ‘technical textiles’, i.e. the ones used in a daily routine of closing and securing household objects, are the main focus of this presentation.
Link to the programme: https://www.edelkoort.us/new-events/2020/9/1/talking-textiles-conference
This paper examines the evidence for the technical uses of textiles deriving from textile imprints on undersides of direct object sealings recovered from Lerna in the Argolid (Early Bronze Age) and Phaistos on Crete (Middle Bronze Age). Parameters and production techniques of threads, cords, ropes and textiles that may be revealed from textile imprints, as well as specific uses of textile products in sealing practices as a means to handle, tie, wrap, or store etc., are compared at these two individual sites. The evidence under discussion enables, for what may be the very first time, a quantitative studies of site-specific properties and uses of textile products from Bronze Age Greece.
The abundant, yet largely ignored evidence from imprints of textiles that are preserved on the undersides of lumps of clay stamped by the seals, provides unique information about the qualities of actual fabrics, as well as various uses of textiles in everyday life and administrative practices. An assemblage of silicone casts of the undersides of the sealings from Phaistos, Crete, which is kept in the Archive of the Corpus der minoischen und mykenischen Siegel, University of Heidelberg, will constitute a case study for further consideration in this paper.
In order to facilitate the achievement of these tasks, an Open Access data base has been designed specifically for this project through the services of the Digital Humanities Laboratory of the University of Warsaw. In this paper, I will briefly demonstrate the structure of this data base and the possibilities of its search engine. Although the data entry has not yet been finished, this new comparative approach to investigate the relationships between different kinds of evidence, i.e. the imagery of seals, textile imprints and seal-impressed textile tools, has already proved to be a powerful tool. It offers new interpretations based on a large number of records and, until now, unexplored combinations of various data.
The practice of seal-impressing and marking certain textile tools, specifically loom weights, although attested throughout the entire Bronze Age, has until now not attracted more focused scholarly attention. In this paper, an overview of the observed practices is presented and an attempt is made to adopt a more systematic approach to investigating this phenomenon. Middle Bronze Age Malia, Crete, will be a case study for presenting the prospects and limitations of our understanding of the practice of impressing seals on the textile tools. The research presented here results from the project ‘Textiles and Seals. Relations between Textile Production and Seals and Sealing Practices in Bronze Age Greece’ (NCN SONATA 13, UMO-2017/26/D/HS3/00145), that I am currently leading at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw.
Inscriptions in the Cretan Hieroglyphic script were also engraved on this type of seal. The graphic form of several hieroglyphic syllabograms has already been recognised as a schematic depiction of physical objects (animals, plants, tools, etc.) that, furthermore, represented speech sounds. These included the syllabogram CHIC 041, representing a piece of textile with fringes. In this paper, we argue that more textile production-related motifs may have been encoded into the schematic form of the Cretan Hieroglyphic syllabograms. While presenting this new iconographic interpretation and our research methodology, we will compare the schematic forms of the signs with other motifs in glyptic dating to the same period and possibly representing the same physical objects. We also observe the visual similarity of some of the discussed motifs with motifs that were present in the Mesopotamian glyptic, though the dates of these are one millennium earlier than the prismatic seals from Crete.
The presented study has been undertaken within a research project ‘Textiles and Seals. Relations between Textile Production and Seals and Sealing Practices in Bronze Age Greece’ funded by the National Science Centre, Poland in the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw (UMO-2017/26/D/HS3/00145) and directed by A. Ulanowska.
In my paper, archaeological evidence of textile workplaces, tools and methods by which the technical developments may have been transmitted will be examined in relation to potential engendering of textile labour in this period. A special focus, however, will be placed on the iconography and function of Middle Minoan soft stone prismatic seals from central and eastern Crete, and possible representations of weavers on their seal faces. I will argue that human figures shown with a ‘loom weight’ motif must have been weavers and I will examine whether other sequences in the chaîne opératoire of textile production, and other textile workers, can also be recognised on these seals. I will also discuss how seals and sealings may have been used in administration of textile production in this period, as well as who the seal bearers may have been, in terms of their social status and gender.
Following the tradition of previous NESAT Conference editions, the NESAT XV Conference in Warsaw will focus on the study of archaeological textiles in Northern and Central Europe, spanning from the Neolithic to historical periods. We invite submissions that explore textile discoveries within their broader contexts, including technical, social, cultural aspects and meanings, as well as various facets of textile production and economy. Additionally, we encourage papers that discuss research methodologies and methods, and theories related to textiles.
Proposals for 20-minute oral presentations should include an abstract in English, with a maximum length of 350 words, as well as the presenter's personal details (title/degree, name, affiliation, email address, and, if available, ORCID ID number). We can accommodate a maximum of 48 oral papers over the course of the three-day proceedings.
Furthermore, there will be a poster session featuring a maximum of 32 posters. If you opt for a poster presentation, please submit an abstract of up to 200 words. The NESAT Scientific Committee reserves the right to suggest a change in the type of presentation based on the submitted proposal.
Deadline
The deadline for submitting proposals for both oral presentations and posters is 31st October 2023. Please send your submissions to: nesat15warsaw@uw.edu.pl. For further details, please visit: https://nesat15warsaw.archeologia.uw.edu.pl/.
Here you can also find the conference programme and the book of abstracts
Proposals are especially welcomed from early career researchers, such as PhD students or candidates, as well as scholars who have completed their doctoral research and recently obtained their title. Attendance and participation is free.
The proposals for 15 min. lectures should consist of an abstract (in English) of max. 250 words. Please send the APPLICATION FORM* to egea@uw.edu.pl by March 15th, 2021.
Publication of the proceedings is planned for the next volume of 'Sympozjum Egejskie. Papers in Aegean Archaeology' (after completing the peer-review process).
Organising Committee: Dr Stephanie Aulsebrook, Katarzyna Żebrowska, MA, Dr Agata Ulanowska, Prof. Kazimierz Lewartowski
*APPLICATION FORM is available for download in the FILES section above.
The Workshop aims at examining and discussing a range of relationships between textile production and seals, and sealing practices in a wider geo-chronological perspective, and with a special focus on the following phenomena: 1) imprints of cords and textiles on the undersides of clay sealings as a source of textile knowledge and the evidence for ‘technical’ uses of textiles; 2) marks and notation practices on textile tools, such as impressions of seals and other objects, incisions and inscriptions; 3) iconography of textile production on seals and textile production-related real world referents for the script signs.
In this session we aim to update this first overview by Andersson Strand et al., by presenting the current state-of-the-art, and by highlighting these new methods, as well as new possibilities in textile research. We welcome papers referring to a wide geo-chronological framework, starting from c. 4th millennium BCE to c. 500 CE, and covering a large area, from Europe and the Mediterranean, to the Near East and Asia.
We are particularly interested in all papers discussing the following aspects of textile archaeology:
– Human modifications of fibrous plants and woolly animals (e.g. analyses of archaeobotanical and archaeozoological data, patterns of transmission of plants and animals);
– Research on raw materials (e.g. conventional and improved analytical tools like SEM, wool quality measurements, isotopic tracing, proteomics, sheep DNA, metal thread analysis, processing of fibres, etc.);
– Textile analysis (e.g. splicing vs. spinning, textile imprints, composition of fabrics, creation of pattern types, etc.);
– Dyes and dye-stuffs (e.g. identification of dye-stuffs and composition of dyes; destructive and non-destructive methods);
– Research on textile tools (e.g. use-wear, geometry of tools vs. their functionality);
– Socio-economic background of textile production (e.g. craft specialization, production modes, patterns of transmission of skills);
– Big data in textile archaeology (e.g. statistical methods; critical evaluation of data and methods);
– Multidisciplinary research projects in textile archaeology; integrating data from different disciplines into interpretations and narratives.
Proposals are especially welcomed from early career researchers, such as PhD students or candidates, as well as scholars who have already completed their doctoral research and recently obtained the title. The proposals for 15 min. lectures should consist of an abstract (in English) of max. 250 words. Please send the APPLICATION FORM* to egea@uw.edu.pl by March 1st, 2019. Conference fee (including conf. materials, coffee breaks, and lunches) is 35,00 EUR per person. Publication of the proceedings is planned (after completing the peer-review process). Organising Committee: Katarzyna Żebrowska, MA, Dr Agata Ulanowska, Prof. Kazimierz Lewartowski *APPLICATION FORM available for download in the FILES section above.
The conference will focus on Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East from the late Neolithic to the early modern period. We particularly welcome papers discussing various aspects of the dynamics and organisation of textile production, such as: Modes of production: individual, household manufacture and organised industry Scale of textile production and consumption of fabrics Degree of the elite’s participation in textile production and the level of their control of textile technology (resources, techniques and skills, workers) and distribution of textiles Advancements of textile techniques, transfer of skills and knowledge, systems of the apprenticeship Gendered division of labour in textile craft Geo-chronological characteristics of textile production, use of different textile types and patterns Experimental approaches to investigating organisation of production and its specialisation Function of textiles in past societies (clothing, soft furnishing, textiles as tools, etc.) and the relevance for production and trade.
We invite submission of paper titles and abstracts (ca. 250 words) by March 15, 2019, at: dynamics@umk.pl
The organisers invite proposals on all themes related to Aegean Archaeology (i.e. Aegean areas and cultures in the Bronze Age, e.g. art, crafts, everyday life; social, funerary, political landscapes; long-distance relations, Aegeans overseas, influence on other cultures, etc.) also in a broader context (new methods, approaches, technologies applied to the research; new technologies in data, research, site management, etc.). Proposals are especially welcomed from early career researchers: PhD students or candidates, as well as scholars who have already completed their doctoral research and recently obtained the title.
The proposals for 20 min. lectures should consist of an abstract (in English) of max. 250 words. Please send the APPLICATION FORM* to egea@uw.edu.pl by January 31st, 2018. The provisional program of the Conference will be announced on February 15th, 2018. Conference fee is 35,00 EUR per person.
Organising Committee
Katarzyna Żebrowska, MA, Dr Agata Ulanowska, Prof. Kazimierz Lewartowski
*APPLICATION FORM available for download in the FILES section above.
CALL FOR PAPERS is open till JANUARY 31st 2017.
The organizers invite proposals on all themes related to Aegean Archaeology, i.e. Aegean areas and cultures in the Bronze Age, also in a broader context. Proposals are welcomed from PhD students or candidates, as well as scholars who have already completed their doctoral research.
The proposals for 20 min. lectures should consist of an abstract (in English) of max. 300 words.
Please send the proposals to egea@uw.edu.pl by January 31st 2017.
The provisional program of the Conference will be announced after February 15th.
Conference fee: 50,00 PLN per person (c. 4,45 PLN = 1 EUR).
For questions and detailed information feel free to contact us via e-mail (egea@uw.edu.pl).
More information about the content and structure of the 'Textiles and Seals' database can be found here: https://textileseals.uw.edu.pl/database-description/.
Długa historia sznurków
Sznurek to z pewnością jeden z pierwszych wynalazków w historii ludzkości. Skręcany był z surowców organicznych, a te ulegają biodegradacji. Nie możemy zatem powiedzieć, kiedy "wymyślono" sznurek. O tym jednak, że był stosowany w bardzo zamierzchłej przeszłości, świadczą dowody pośrednie - tzn. otwory wiercone w kościach, muszlach i różnego rodzaju koralikach. Jeśli bowiem ktoś robił dziurkę, to z intencją, by później przez ten otwór "coś" przewlec.
Najstarsze sznurki
Jak wyjaśnia gość "Eureki" dr hab. Agata Ulanowska z Katedry Archeologii Egejskiej i Włókiennictwa Wydziału Archeologii UW, w przeszłości sznurki wykonywano z dwóch typów surowców. - Były to między innymi surowce pochodzenia zwierzęcego. Nie była to wełna, ale wykorzystywano jelita i ścięgna - mówi. - Włosy ludzkie również mogły być używane. Mamy potwierdzenie, że wytwarzano liny z włosów ludzkich, ale są to dane z późniejszych czasów - dodaje.
Najstarsze sznurki robiono przede wszystkim z lnu i konopi oraz... pokrzyw. W późniejszym czasie stosowano również łyko - głównie lipy, choć najsłynniejszy sznurek - legendarny węzeł gordyjski - miał powstać z łyka drzewa dereniowego. - Sznurki można robić z różnych rzeczy. Kojarzę takie rośliny, które do dzisiaj są używane w przemyśle włókienniczym, jak na przykład len, konopie. Ale trzeba pamiętać, że w grę wchodzą właściwie wszystkie rośliny, które mają włókniste łodygi, więc to może być pokrzywa. - Łyko jest również bardzo ważnym surowcem. Wszystko wskazuje na to, że ono było wykorzystywane w tak dużej skali, że m.in. doprowadziło do jednej z najstarszych katastrof ekologicznych, a mianowicie przetrzebienia lip. Łyko lipowe jest najlepsze do tego typu produkcji - podkreśla gość Jedynki.
Nowy projekt badawczy
W historii sznurek stał się na tyle ważny, że powstała w Europie inicjatywa łącząca specjalistów zajmujących się tą dziedziną. Celem projektu jest nowe spojrzenie na dzieje Europy, w którym uwypuklona zostanie rola produkcji włókienniczej, jednej z najważniejszych gałęzi wytwórczości i ekonomii, od epoki kamienia po współczesność. - Mamy nowy projekt, który zaczął działać w 2020 roku. Nazywa się on "Europe Through Textiles", po polsku brzmiałby: "Europa przez tekstylia". Naszym głównym celem jest sformułowanie nowej wizji historii Europy w oparciu o tekstylia, produkcję włókienniczą - przyznaje dr hab. Agata Ulanowska. - Mamy aż 32 kraje w tym projekcie, więc jest to naprawdę spore przedsięwzięcie - mówi rozmówczyni Katarzyny Kobyleckiej.
Please send your abstracts (in English, max. 250 words), your personal details (title, full name, affiliation, email address) and a short personal biography (max. 100 words including ORCID number and/or research webpage links) to egea@uw.edu.pl by March 20th 2023.