Dear colleagues,

I would like to inform you that the data on sheep husbandry, assembled from 2013- 2018 by the Research Group „The Textile Revolution“ have been published open access on the website of the Edition Topoi in Berlin.

A description of the project and its four related sub-projects is available at the following links:

Research Group A-4:
„The Textile Revolution“
http://www.topoi.org/group/a-4/
Abstract:
The research project Textile Revolution integrates studies on the introduction and spreading of the woolly sheep and wool usage from different scientific fields. Past herd structures of domesticates are investigated on the basis of bone finds; spinning tools and textile-related finds provide information on fabric production, and herding-related vegetation disturbances are investigated using pollen data. The investigated area spans from the Zagros Mountains in the south-east to the Great Hungarian Plain in the north-west and the time period between 6500 – 1500 BC is covered.

Research Project A-4-1:
"Archaeological sources for the early wool usage in the Near East and Europe"
http://www.topoi.org/project/a-4-1/

Research Project A-4-2:
"Archaeozoological analyzes of domestic sheep in the area between the Near East and Central Europe (5th-2nd millennium BC)"
http://www.topoi.org/project/a-4-2/

Research Project A-4-3: "Mid-Holocene landscape changes due to grazing"
http://www.topoi.org/project/a-4-3/

Research Project A-4-4: „Sheep Husbandry of Mesopotamia in the late 4th to early 3rd Millennium"
http://www.topoi.org/project/a-4-4/

The the raw data of each project are available as Excel-files from the links below. There is also a file with metadata and summary of each dataset.
https://www.knochenarbeit.de/topoi-sheep-database/ or
http://repository.edition-topoi.org/collection/WOLL or

For those of you working in the Neolithic or Bronze Age of SE-Europe or SW-Asia the archaeozoological database (Project A-4-2) may be of interest, in which data from archaeozoological publications and unpublished raw data of sites in Southeast Europe and Southwest Asia spanning a time frame from 7000 BC to 1500 BC have been recorded. The data have been collected from 548 publications published between 1952 and 2015. The present state of the database (29.7.2019) combines data of 401 settlement sites from 18 countries, 296 of which are located in SE-Europe and 105 in SW-Asia. The database includes archaeozoological data of over 2,1 million identified mammal bones including 66.717 bones identified as Ovis aries. The osteometrical part of the collection contains more than 14.000 measurement data of sheep bones. Anybody interested in the original archaeozoological database instead of the Excel files, please get in touch with me.

Finally, below is a list of publications resulting out of the project, that maybe of interest for one or the other of you:

Best wishes.

Christian

References:
Archaeozoology publications:
# Becker, Cornelia / Benecke, Norbert / Grabundžija, Ana / Küchelmann, Hans Christian / Pollock, Susan / Schier, Wolfram / Schoch,
Chiara / Schumacher, Martin (2015): Domestic Sheep – Wool Production – Landscape Changes, poster presented at the
Evaluation of the Topoi-Project 15. 1. 2015, Berlin
download: https://www.knochenarbeit.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/Becker-etal-2015-poster-topoi-evaluation.pdf

# Becker, Cornelia / Benecke, Norbert / Grabundžija, Ana / Küchelmann, Hans Christian / Pollock, Susan / Schier, Wolfram / Schoch,
Chiara / Schrakamp, Ingo / Schütt, Brigitta / Schumacher, Martin (2016): The Textile Revolution. Research into the Origin and
Spread of Wool Production between the Near East and Central Europe. – eTopoi Journal for Ancient Studies Special Volume 6,
102-145
download: https://www.knochenarbeit.de/textile-revolution-2016/

# Becker, Cornelia / Benecke, Norbert / Küchelmann, Hans Christian / Suhrbier, Stefan (in press since May 2018, scheduled for 2220):
Finding the woolly sheep: meta-analyses of archaeozoological data from Southwest-Asia and Southeast-Europe. in: Schier,
Wolfram & Pollock, Susan (eds.): Proceedings of the Topoi-Workshop „The Competition of Fibres“ March 2017

# Becker, Cornelia / Benecke, Norbert / Grabundžija, Ana / Küchelmann, Hans Christian / Pollock, Susan / Schier, Wolfram / Schoch,
Chiara / Schrakamp, Ingo / Schütt, Brigitta / Schumacher, Martin (manuscript finished July 2014; publication date uncertain):
The textile revolution. Research into the origin and spread of wool production between the Near East and Central Europe, in:
Topoi Research Group Reports, Berlin
download: https://www.knochenarbeit.de/textile-revolution-2014/

Textile Revolution in general:
# Djurdjevac Conrad, Natasa / Furstenau, Daniel / Grabundžija, Ana / Helfmann, Luzie / Park, Martin / Schier, Wolfram / Schützt,
Brigitta / Schütte, Christof / Weber, Marcus / Wulkow, Niklas / Zonker, Johannes (2018): Mathematical Modeling of the
Spreading of Innovations in the Ancient World. – eTopoi Journal for Ancient Studies 7, 1-32

# Grabundžija, Ana (2018): Eneolithic textile production, in: Balen, Jaqueline / Miloglav, I. / Rajković, D. (eds.): Back to the past:
Copper Age in northern Croatia, Zagreb, Tiskara Zelina, 257-285

# Grabundžija, Ana (2018): Threads that bind the establishement. Housing eneolithic textile craft, in: Balen, Jaqueline / Miloglav, I. /
Rajković, D. (eds.): Back to the past: Copper Age in northern Croatia, Zagreb, Tiskara Zelina, 287-323

# Grabundžija, Ana / Schoch, Chiara / Ulanowska, Agata (2016): Bones for the Loom. Weaving Experiment with Astragali Weights. –
Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu 33, 287-306
download: https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/252418

# Grabundžija, Ana & Russo, Emmanuele (2016): Tools tell tales – climate trends changing threads in the prehistoric Pannonian Plain.
– Documenta Praehistorica 43, 301-326

# Grabundžija, Ana (2018): Two sides of a whorl. Unspinning meanings and functionality of eneolithic textile tools. in: Siennicka,
Malgorzata / Rahmstorf, Lorenz / Ulanowska, Agata (eds.): First Textiles. The beginning of textile manufacture in Europe and
Mediterranean, Oxford

# Karg, Sabine / Diederichsen, Axel / Jeppson, S. (2018): Discussing flax domestication in Europe using biometric measurements on
recent and archaeological flax seeds – a pilot study. in: Siennicka, Malgorzata / Rahmstorf, Lorenz / Ulanowska, Agata (eds.):
First Textiles. The beginning of textile manufacture in Europe and Mediterranean, Oxford

# Park, Martin (2017): Mid-Holocene Landscape Development in the Carpathian Region - Pastoralism, Climate and their
Interdependencies, Berlin

# Schumacher, Martin / Schier, Wolfram / Schütt, Brigitta (2016): Mid-Holocene vegetation development and herding-related
interferences in the Carpathian region. – Quaternary International 415, 253–267

# Schumacher, Martin / Schütt, Brigitta / Schier, Wolfram (2015): Near Landscapes of the Textile Revolution. – eTopoi Journal for
Ancient Studies, Special Volume 4, 162–187
download: http://www.topoi.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/eTopoi_Sp4_Schumacher-et-al.pdf

# Schumacher, Martin / Dobos, Anna / Schier, Wolfram / Schütt, Brigitta (2018): Holocene valley incision in the southern Bükk
foreland: Climate-human-environment interferences in northern Hungary. – Quaternary International 463, 91–109

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