Abstract
A team from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, led by Miquel Molist, has been working on the Tell Halula prepottery Neolithic site on the right bank of the Euphrates since 1991. The excavation has allowed the discovery of remains of textiles, basketry and mats that are of special interest due to their antiquity. This article describes these textiles, most of which are connected with funeral rituals. The bodies were placed in small wells dug into the compacted clay floors inside the dwellings. Studying the spinning and weaving processes that gave rise to these items is extremely difficult because of the lack of instrumenta textilia that might throw light on the technology employed, which can only be postulated on the basis of the few samples of organic matter that have been preserved.
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