Description: Presents new research on the extraction and physical and chemical properties of, and the use and social significance of mollusc-extracted purple dyes and sea silk in textiles in Mediterranean prehistory
Brief description: Hedvig Landenius Enegren is a researcher affiliated with the Danish National Research Foundation's Centre for Textile Research (CTR), University of Copenhagen. She trained as an archaeologist in Stockholm and Uppsala and her research spans from Aegean Late Bronze Age and Eastern Mediterranean epigraphy of the first millennium BCE to ancient textiles and textile tool technology. She is currently conducting research on the textile tool material from Grotta Vanella at Segesta, Sicily.
Review Quotes: "The volume is a pleasure to read... the overall publication is excellent. The interdisciplinary approach maintains the reader's interest and works well for ancient materials, which can be studied from a variety of angles."--Kate Fulcher