Textiles, textile production and clothing were essentials of living in prehistory, locked into the system of society at every level "social, economic and even r

This monograph attempts to revise present ideas of the origins and early development of textiles in Europe and the Near East. Using linguistic techniques as wel

About the year 1890 the writer was requested by the Director of the Bureau of Ethnology to prepare certain papers on aboriginal art, to accompany the final repo