Regional Costume and Identity in the Final Neolithic to Bronze Age: the Statue Menhir Evidence

The focus of this project was prehistoric Europe and the central Mediterranean with expertise in organic artefacts and representational art.

Research

Archaeologist Susanna Harries studied textiles, leather and basketry of the Neolithic to Bronze Age and the role of these materials in dress and identity through people represented in stone, metal or ceramics. Through experimental archaeology she explored the technology and materials used to make prehistoric cloth. Her research questioned the role of textiles in the production and consumption of wealth in the early urban centres of the Mediterranean (Greece, Italy, Spain) from 1000-500 BC. In practice, she involved the analysis, recording and sampling of artefacts across a wide network of museums and archives in Europe.

This project was co-funded by the Marie Curie COFUND program of the European Commission and the the Dahlem Research School (DRS).