Wool-focused economies yielded a pastoralist materiality that visibly shaped the lived experiences of Central Asian populations today. In this paper, we investigate the earlier application of fibers through a key mountain corridor for social interactions during Prehistory. We focus on the site of Chap 1 located in the highlands of the Tien Shan Mountains of Kyrgyzstan where researchers have found a complex agropastoral subsistence culture was established from at least ca. 3,000 BCE. The perishable materials that would have accompanied the early spread of cultural and technological traditions related to fiber-based crafts throughout this area are under-documented due to poor organic preservation. Hence, there has been little consideration of the role that textiles played in highland occupation and how woven fabrics might have facilitated settlement in the extreme climates of Central Asia. We address this ongoing problem through a multi-application survey of Chap's unpublished textile evidence preserved as impressions in coarseware ceramics of its Final Bronze Age. We consider evidence that sheep wool formed a key cultural adaptation for surviving the extreme winters of Central Asia's highland regions.
Publication Name (dc.title) | A Wooly Way? Fiber technologies and cultures 3,000-years-ago along the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor |
Author/s (dc.contributor.yazarlar) | Paula N. Doumani Dupuy, Kubatbek Tabaldiev, Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute |
Publication type (dc.type) | Makale |
Language (dc.language) | İngilizce |
Publication year (dc.date.issued) | 2023 |
National/International (dc.identifier.ulusaluluslararasi) | Uluslararası |
Source (dc.relation.journal) | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution |
Volume/Issue (dc.identifier.volume) | 10 |
Page (dc.identifier.startpage) | Article Number: 1070775 |
ISSN/ISBN (dc.identifier.issn) | ISSN: 2296-701X |
Publisher (dc.publisher) | Frontiers Media, Switzerland |
Databases (dc.contributor.veritaban) | Web of Science Core Collection |
Databases (dc.contributor.veritaban) | Frontiers |
Databases (dc.contributor.veritaban) | Scopus |
Index Type (dc.identifier.index) | SCI Expanded |
Index Type (dc.identifier.index) | Scopus |
Impact Factor (dc.identifier.etkifaktoru) | 3 / 2022-WOS / 5 Year: 3,8 |
Abstract (dc.description.abstract) | Wool-focused economies yielded a pastoralist materiality that visibly shaped the lived experiences of Central Asian populations today. In this paper, we investigate the earlier application of fibers through a key mountain corridor for social interactions during Prehistory. We focus on the site of Chap 1 located in the highlands of the Tien Shan Mountains of Kyrgyzstan where researchers have found a complex agropastoral subsistence culture was established from at least ca. 3,000 BCE. The perishable materials that would have accompanied the early spread of cultural and technological traditions related to fiber-based crafts throughout this area are under-documented due to poor organic preservation. Hence, there has been little consideration of the role that textiles played in highland occupation and how woven fabrics might have facilitated settlement in the extreme climates of Central Asia. We address this ongoing problem through a multi-application survey of Chap's unpublished textile evidence preserved as impressions in coarseware ceramics of its Final Bronze Age. We consider evidence that sheep wool formed a key cultural adaptation for surviving the extreme winters of Central Asia's highland regions. |
URL (dc.rights) | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2022.1070775/full |
DOI (dc.identifier.doi) | 10.3389/fevo.2022.1070775 |
Faculty / Institute (dc.identifier.fakulte) | Edebiyat Fakültesi |
Department (dc.identifier.bolum) | Tarih Bölümü |
Author(s) in the Institution (dc.contributor.author) | Kubatbek TABALDİYEV |
Kayıt No (dc.identifier.kayitno) | BL3ACE73A1 |
Record Add Date (dc.date.available) | 2023-02-23 |
Notes (Publication year) (dc.identifier.notyayinyili) | January 2023 |
Wos No (dc.identifier.wos) | WOS:000914139400001 |
Subject Headings (dc.subject) | Kyrgyzstan |
Subject Headings (dc.subject) | chap |
Subject Headings (dc.subject) | textiles |
Subject Headings (dc.subject) | wool |
Subject Headings (dc.subject) | mountains |
Subject Headings (dc.subject) | bronze age |
Subject Headings (dc.subject) | archaeology |
Subject Headings (dc.subject) | sem |