Textiles and dyes in the mediterranean economy and society: proceedings of the VIth International Symposium on Textiles and Dyes in the Ancient Mediterranean World (Padova - Este - Altino, Italy 17 - 20 October 2016)

espanolEl VI Simposio PURPUREAE VESTES se centra en el papel de la produccion textil y el tenido en las actividades economicas de las diversas culturas antiguas del area mediterranea. Los avances recientes en los estudios textiles y los numerosos proyectos cientificos que estan utilizando evidencia textil, han proporcionado un impulso importante para entender los desarrollos economicos mas amplios de las antiguas sociedades mediterraneas. Ademas de las fuentes mas conocidas de la produccion textil mediterranea, como la evidencia escrita, la iconografia y las herramientas, intentamos priorizar particularmente la evidencia arqueologica relacionada con los propios textiles, que durante mucho tiempo se ha descuidado en gran medida en muchas regiones debido a la dificultad percibida de preservacion. En los ultimos anos, se ha logrado un progreso significativo no solo en la identificacion y el estudio de textiles arqueologicos, sino tambien en los metodos de investigacion. EnglishThe VI PURPUREAE VESTES Symposium focus on the role of textile production and dyeing in the economic activities of the various ancient cultures of the Mediterranean area. An important impetus for this has been provided by the recent advances in textile studies and the numerous scientific projects that are using textile evidence tounderstand wider economic developments of ancient Mediterranean societies. In addition to the better known sources of the Mediterranean textile production, such as the written evidence, iconography and tools, we particularly tried to prioritise archaeological evidence relating to textiles themselves, which for long has been largely neglected in many regions due to the perceived difficulty of preservation. In recent years, a significant progress has been made not only in the identification and study of archaeological textiles, but also in the methods of their investigation.