A Wooly Way? Fiber technologies and cultures 3,000-years-ago along the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor
Wool-focused economies yielded a pastoralist materiality that visibly shaped the lived experiences of Central Asian populations today. In this paper, we investigate the earlier application of fibers through a key mountain corridor for social interactions during Prehistory. We focus on the site of Ch...
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| author | Paula N. Doumani Dupuy Kubatbek Tabaldiev Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute |
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| description | Wool-focused economies yielded a pastoralist materiality that visibly shaped the lived experiences of Central Asian populations today. In this paper, we investigate the earlier application of fibers through a key mountain corridor for social interactions during Prehistory. We focus on the site of Chap 1 located in the highlands of the Tien Shan Mountains of Kyrgyzstan where researchers have found a complex agropastoral subsistence culture was established from at least ca. 3,000 BCE. The perishable materials that would have accompanied the early spread of cultural and technological traditions related to fiber-based crafts throughout this area are under-documented due to poor organic preservation. Hence, there has been little consideration of the role that textiles played in highland occupation and how woven fabrics might have facilitated settlement in the extreme climates of Central Asia. We address this ongoing problem through a multi-application survey of Chap’s unpublished textile evidence preserved as impressions in coarseware ceramics of its Final Bronze Age. We consider evidence that sheep wool formed a key cultural adaptation for surviving the extreme winters of Central Asia’s highland regions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d4fe16ea7b4e40269ca90a7e9c712cf32023-01-06T19:10:08ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution2296-701X2023-01-011010.3389/fevo.2022.10707751070775A Wooly Way? Fiber technologies and cultures 3,000-years-ago along the Inner Asian Mountain CorridorPaula N. Doumani Dupuy0Kubatbek Tabaldiev1Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute2Sociology and Anthropology Department, Nazarbayev University, Astana, KazakhstanFaculty of Humanities, Department of History, Turkish Manas University, Bishkek, KyrgyzstanCity Research Department, Lithuanian Institute of History, Vilnius, LithuaniaWool-focused economies yielded a pastoralist materiality that visibly shaped the lived experiences of Central Asian populations today. In this paper, we investigate the earlier application of fibers through a key mountain corridor for social interactions during Prehistory. We focus on the site of Chap 1 located in the highlands of the Tien Shan Mountains of Kyrgyzstan where researchers have found a complex agropastoral subsistence culture was established from at least ca. 3,000 BCE. The perishable materials that would have accompanied the early spread of cultural and technological traditions related to fiber-based crafts throughout this area are under-documented due to poor organic preservation. Hence, there has been little consideration of the role that textiles played in highland occupation and how woven fabrics might have facilitated settlement in the extreme climates of Central Asia. We address this ongoing problem through a multi-application survey of Chap’s unpublished textile evidence preserved as impressions in coarseware ceramics of its Final Bronze Age. We consider evidence that sheep wool formed a key cultural adaptation for surviving the extreme winters of Central Asia’s highland regions.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2022.1070775/fullKyrgyzstanChaptextileswoolmountainsBronze Age |
| spellingShingle | Paula N. Doumani Dupuy Kubatbek Tabaldiev Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute A Wooly Way? Fiber technologies and cultures 3,000-years-ago along the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution Kyrgyzstan Chap textiles wool mountains Bronze Age |
| title | A Wooly Way? Fiber technologies and cultures 3,000-years-ago along the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor |
| title_full | A Wooly Way? Fiber technologies and cultures 3,000-years-ago along the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor |
| title_fullStr | A Wooly Way? Fiber technologies and cultures 3,000-years-ago along the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Wooly Way? Fiber technologies and cultures 3,000-years-ago along the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor |
| title_short | A Wooly Way? Fiber technologies and cultures 3,000-years-ago along the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor |
| title_sort | wooly way fiber technologies and cultures 3 000 years ago along the inner asian mountain corridor |
| topic | Kyrgyzstan Chap textiles wool mountains Bronze Age |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2022.1070775/full |
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