Ancient Technology
Weaving Production in Butser Ancient Farm Roundhouses in the South of England
The Process of Making Schist Axes of Paja Ul Deˀŋ – “The People of Big Water”
A Shared Warp: The Woven Belts of the Lao Han People, China
The renowned weaver Peter Collingwood briefly mentioned such belts in his book The Techniques of Tablet Weaving (Collingwood, 1982, pp.219-220). Not long before he died in 2008, he contributed a couple of pages on these belts to the book Minority Textile Techniques: Costumes from South-West China (Collingwood, 2007, pp.28-29).
The Shroud of Turin and the Extra Sheds of Warping Threads. How Hard can it be to Set up a 3/1 Chevron Twill, Herringbone on a Warp-weighted Loom?
Neolithic Bow Build at Kierikki Stone Age Centre (FI)
Techno-functional Study of the Personal Ornaments in Lignite of the Boira Fusca Cave (Cuorgnè, Torino-Italy)
***This paper aims to present a techno-functional study of lignite ornamental objects found during the Fedele excavations (1977-1980) in the Boira Fusca Cave (Cuorgnè, Salto-Turin, Italy). The site demonstrates a chrono-cultural sequence which extends from the late Palaeolithic to the Modern era...
An Analysis of Contemporary Sources to Uncover the Medieval Identity of the Drink Bochet
The Vertical Olive Crushing Mill as a Machine and its Energy Balance - A Preliminary Approach
Introduction
The vertical monolithic olive mill of the type of mola olearia which, like the Roman trapetum, first appeared during the Hellenistic era and spread all over the Graeco-Roman Mediterranean, surviving until the 20th century 1 .