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The basic needs of homo sapiens are food, water, and shelter, and in some climates shelter means not just a dry cave or hut, but portable shelter—clothes. It is no surprise, therefore, that artifacts used during the various clothmaking processes are found on archaeological sites from the Neolithic period onward. For the most part, but varying from period to period, these artifacts take the form of loom weights, spindles and their whorls, weaving tablets, tools such as weft-beaters and swords, shears and wool-combs. The recovery of the textiles themselves is much less common, depending as it does on particular conditions of deposition.
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Crummy, N. (2002). From Self-Sufficiency to Commerce: Structural and Artifactual Evidence for Textile Manufacture in Eastern England in the Pre-Conquest Period. In: Koslin, D.G., Snyder, J.E. (eds) Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress. The New Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-08394-4_3
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