Textiles in Sicily: from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age

Abstract
Textiles are an important source of evidence for the reconstruction of past societies, but data from the central Mediterranean are scanty, and they have not been properly investigated. The candidate should collect all the evidence from Sicily (represented by spindles, loom-weights and any other material sourcers, plus iconographic evidence), in order to understand the role and the technology of textile manufacture in the island from the IV to the II millennium b.C.
Keywords
Archaeology
Textiles
protohistory
Sicily
technology
ERC sector(s)
SH Social Sciences and Humanities
Fields of study
Name supervisor
Pietro Maria Militello
E-mail
milipi@unict.it
Name of Department/Faculty/School
Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche
Name of the host University
University of Catania (UNICT)
EUNICE partner e-mail of destination Research
eunice@unict.it
Country
Italy
Thesis level
Master
Minimal language knowledge requisite
French B2
English B2
Italian C1
German B1
Thesis mode
On-site
Start date
Length of the research internship
6 months
Financial support available (other than E+)
No