It's not that recent (early 90s I think), but somewhere I have a paper
about the textiles found on the Mary Rose, which included a discussion
of whether the fabrics were from fleeces that were woolly underfur only,
or included guard hairs. It might have been by Ryder. I'll try to find
the reference for it tonight if you think it would be any use.
Cheers
amanda
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From: Analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites
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Sent: 26 February 2007 10:38
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Subject: [ZOOARCH] Wool development in Sheep
A new week and a new query
Are there any recent papers that discuss wool development at all?
I Know that Ryders (1969 etc) work indicates that wool was found in
Bronze Age and in Britain is present in Roman textiles (useful links for
anyone looking for papers are http://www.bahs.org.uk/32n1a2.pdf and
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/cbaresrep/pdf/040/04002001.pdf -
jolly useful this trend of scanning papers).
In a previous email (zooarch archive) Dale Serjeanston sent a reply to
Melanie Wilson suggesting Ryder, M. (1989). Possible skin and hair
fibres. In Wilsford Shaft: Excavations 1960-2. M. Bell.
London, English Heritage Report 11: 121-124. So off to library to have a
look but in the meantime is there any more uk evidence for wool? or does
it mostly come from wool processing equipment?
Also if we had hairy sheep to begin with did we then breed our own
woolly sheep or did we get them from Europe? Must go back and read
Ryder in more detail, his diagrams suggest that at least some species
were bought over by the Romans. There must be a sheep gene project
going on......
Thanks as ever.
Jacqui
Jacqui Mulville,
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