Archaeologists Reconstruct 3,500-Year-Old Loom - Archaeology Magazine
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Archaeologists Reconstruct 3,500-Year-Old Loom - Archaeology Magazine
Reconstruction of a Bronze Age loom on display at the Archaeological Museum of Alcoi, Spain ALICANTE, SPAIN—According to a statement released by Antiquity, a team of researchers led by Ricardo E. Basso Rial of the University of Granada has analyzed and partially reconstructed a warp-weighted loom based upon charred timbers, plant fiber ropes, and clay loom weights discovered at the site of Cabezo Redondo in southeastern Spain. “The existence of …
The settlement of Cabezo Redondo, covering approximately 1 hectare, functioned from 2100 to 1250 BCE as a vital junction between the interior of the Iberian Peninsula and the coast. A great fire that broke out around 1507–1428 BCE destroyed some of the buildings but preserved the loom, seemingly frozen in time.
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