Finds of textile fragments and evidence of textile production at a major excavation site of Great Moravia in Mikulčice (South Moravia, Czech Republic)

0424236 - ARÚ 2014 RIV DE eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Březinová, Helena
Finds of textile fragments and evidence of textile production at a major excavation site of Great Moravia in Mikulčice (South Moravia, Czech Republic).
NESAT XI. The North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles XI. Rahden/Westf: Leidorf, 2013 - (Banck-Burgess, J.; Nübold, C.), s. 193-196. ISBN 978-3-86757-002-2.
[North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles /11./. Esslingen (DE), 10.05.2011-13.05.2011]
R&D Projects: GA AV ČR KJB800020901
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z80020508
Keywords : Mikulčice * Early Medieval burial sites with skeletal remains * textile fragments * technological textile analysis * textile production
Subject RIV: AC - Archeology, Anthropology, Ethnology

Presentation of the processing and analysis of textile fragments preserved in the corrosive layers of metal items, primarily from tomb finds at the site of Grand Moravian fortified settlement in Mikulčice and its surroundings. It includes several dozens various fabrics preserved on the surface of items left in tombs dated to the 8th through 10th centuries. Besides the textile finds, some direct evidence will be presented of textile production at the location, in the form of textile-production tools. The presented finds from Mikulčice represent the largest set of textile fragments from the Early Middle Ages to have been found and processed in the Czech Republic.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0230315