Wool Economy in the Ancient near East.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Wool Economy in the Ancient Near East and the Aegean -- Chapter 1: Bronze and Iron Age Wools in Europe -- Chapter 2: The Expansion of Sheep Herding and the Development of Wool Production in the Ancient Near East: An Archaeozoological and Iconographical Approach -- Chapter 3: Sheep, Wool and Textile Production. An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Complexity of Wool Working -- Chapter 4: The Archaeology of Wool in Early Mesopotamia: Sources, Methods, Perspectives -- Chapter 5: Lambs of the Gods. The Beginnings of the Wool Economy in Proto-Cuneiform Texts -- Chapter 6: The Value of Wool in Early Bronze Age Mesopotamia. On the Control of Sheep and the Handling of Wool in the Presargonic to the Ur III Periods (c. 2400-2000 BC) -- Chapter 7: Wool in the Economy of Sargonic Mesopotamia -- Chapter 8: From Weighing Wool to Weaving Tools. Textile Manufacture at Ebla during the Early Syrian Period in the Light of Archaeological Evidence -- Chapter 9: Some Aspects of the Wool Economy at Ebla (Syria, 24th Century BC) -- Chapter 10: Making Textiles at Arslantepe, Turkey, in the 4th and 3rd Millennia BC. Archaeological Data and Experimental Archaeology -- Chapter 11: Wool Economy in the Royal Archive of Mari during the Šakkanakku Period -- Chapter 12: All Wool and a Yard Wide. Wool Production and Trade in Old Babylonian Sippar -- Chapter 13: Wool Trade in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria According to Old Babylonian and Old Assyrian Texts -- Chapter 14: Wool in Anatolia in the Old Assyrian Period -- Chapter 15: Wool Economy in Minoan Crete before Linear B. A Minimalist Position -- Chapter 16: Wool in the Nuzi Texts -- Chapter 17: Wool Production and Economy at Ugarit -- Chapter 18: Sheep Rearing, Wool Production and Management in Mycenaean Written Documents.

Chapter 19: Mycenaean Wool Economies in the Latter Part of the 2nd Millennium BC Aegean -- Chapter 20: Wool, Hair and Textiles in Assyria -- Chapter 21: "If you have sheep, you have all you need". Sheep Husbandry and Wool in the Economy of the Neo-Babylonian Ebabbar Temple at Sippar -- Chapter 22: Fabrics and Clothes from Mesopotamia during the Achaemenid and Seleucid Periods: The Textual References.

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