2,700-Year-Old Fabric Found in Greece

PhysOrg.com ^ | 05/09/2007 | Nicholas Paphitis

[Red Badger]

ping!.....

[piasa]

Someone’s crusty pantsuit turned up just in time for the 2008 election?

[Red Badger]

It was that costly in ancient times to burn a body?

No, but they didn't want to effect global warming.......

[Loud Mime]

I would not handle “Yellow Fabric” that was from the clothing of a deceased person.

[TXnMA]

Not a big fan of reading posted articles?

[LachlanMinnesota]

Grecian Polyester?

[Red Badger]

Grecian Poly Esther.........

[T.Smith]

An odd burial for the time? The deceased was not laid to rest according to the Grecian formula?

[blam]

Thanks. Posted here too:

Greek Archaeologists Discover Rare Example Of 2,700-Year-Old Weaving

[SunkenCiv]

A Weaver's View of the Catal Huyuk Controversy
by Marla Mallett
August/September 1990

In was enlightening to read Mellaart's excavation reports from the 1960s [2] as well as other early writings. Contradictions between those texts and the current work indicated more than a runaway kilim theory and an overly fertile imagination at work. Technical and stylistic problems now combined with incriminating disclosures to reveal what seemed to be careless, poorly conceived fabrications -- possibly a deliberate hoax... The current controversy is not the first instance in which James Mellaart has offered flimsy evidence as the sole "proof" of revolutionary archaeological findings. In the mysterious Dorak Affair... Mellaart claims to have uncovered a cache of spectacular royal treasures (c. 2500 B.C.?) in a young woman's Izmir home in 1958, along with archaeological notes and a textile sketch -- a drawing of an excavator's drawing of a carbonized rug which supposedly had disintegrated after it was unearthed. A few months later, Mellaart published drawings of the objects in a London newspaper. In the meantime, however, all of the artifacts and their owner vanished. As for the alleged textile, Mellaart tells us it had pattern and color "well enough preserved to be recorded" but was so decayed it might have been either a "kilim" or "coloured felt." He says, "I prefer the kilim interpretation." In fact, Mellaart's colored design, published by Seyton Lloyd, is too linear for tapestry. The relevant aspect of this episode is, of course, Mellaart's attempt to establish a milestone in textile history -- a 4,500-year-old kilim -- on the basis of nothing tangible. A sketch of a sketch is shaky evidence at best, if evidence at all. The parallels are obvious between this case and Mellaart's current efforts to establish an 8,000-year-old kilim-weaving tradition in Anatolia. It is amusing that a black and white line drawing representing the alleged carbonized Dorak textile in The Goddess from Anatolia (Vol. III, Fig. XXVII, No. 3, and at the left here), now a sketch-of-a-sketch-of-a-sketch, has its own new and bizarre problems. It actually shows as missing nearly all of the parts which are present in Mellaart's color drawing of the same object, and vice versa.

[SunkenCiv]

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[thebaron512]

Might have thrown a hella’ of a party to go along with it!