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,
Senior Lecturer in Bioarchaeology,
Examinations Officer
School of History and Archaeology
Cardiff University
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