![]() ![]() Our aims were to identify their raw material origins, distinguish the thread-making technology present, and to situate them within the broader chaîne opératoire of thread and textile making in the prehistory of the region. The present paper reports on a separate analysis of five woven textile and two cordage fragments, also from the middle habitation phase. C.) provide surprising evidence that instead of being made from flax (linen, Linum usita-tissimum), as previously thought, the fibers are from the inner bark of trees (tree bast), some samples identified as bast from locally growing oak (Quercus sp.). ![]() Recent examinations of textiles from Çatalhöyük's East Mound middle habitation phase (6700-6500 cal. Textiles from Neolithic Çatalhöyük are among the earliest and best-preserved woven plant artifacts from ancient Southwest Asia. ![]()
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