Outreach
Publications
Ulanowska, A. (2023) Why not wool? Evidence for raw materials and technical uses of textiles based on imprints on the undersides of clay sealings from Bronze Age Greece, in J. Banck-Burgess, E. Marinnova, D. Mischka eds, The Significance of Archaeological Textiles. Papers of the International Online Conference 24th–25th February 2021, THEFBO II, Forschungen und Berichte zur Archäologie in Baden-Württemberg Band 28, Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden, 165–177.
Ulanowska, A. (2022) Investigating relations between textile production and seals and sealing practices in Bronze Age Greece: a presentation of the new “Textile and Seals” project database, in A. Ulanowska, K. Grömer, I. Vanden Berghe, M. Öhrman eds, Ancient Textile Production from an Interdisciplinary Perspective, Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology Series, Springer, 295–317, 10.1007/978-3-030-92170-5_17.
Ulanowska, A. (2021) Textile production in the Aegean glyptic: Interpreting small-scale representations on seals and sealings from Bronze Age Greece, in S. Harris, C. Brøns, M. Żuchowska eds, Textiles in Ancient Mediterranean Iconography, Ancient Textiles Series 38, Oxford & Philadelphia, Oxbow Books, 19–40.
Ulanowska, A. (2021) Tekstylia i pieczęcie. O relacjach pomiędzy produkcją włókienniczą a praktykami stemplowania w Grecji epoki brązu oraz o zupełnie nowych danych z odcisków glinianych pieczęci, Przegląd Archeologiczny 69, 111-135, DOI: 10.23858/PA 69.2021.2555.
Nosch, M-L., Ulanowska, A., Żebrowska, K., Bigoraj, K., Gręzak, A. (2021) Sheep – ‘a Factory without Waste’. Comparative, Interdisciplinary and Diachronic Views on Sheep in the Aegean Bronze Age, in R. Laffineur, T.G. Palaima eds, ZOIA. Animal-Human Interactions in the Aegean Middle and Late Bronze Age, Aegaeum 45, Leuven and Liège, Peeters, 35-49.
Nosch, M-L., Ulanowska, A. (2021) The Materiality of the Cretan Hieroglyphic Script: Textile Production-Related Referents to Hieroglyphic Signs on Seals and Sealings from Middle Bronze Age Crete, in P.J. Boyes, P.M. Steele, N.E. Astoreca eds, The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices, Oxford and Philadelphia, Oxbow Books, 73-100.
Ulanowska, A. (2020) Textiles and Seals: Recognising the relationship between textile production and seals, and sealing practices in Bronze Age Greece, Revue de l’Archéologie du Vêtement et du Costume 1, 1-25.
Ulanowska, A. (2020) A chaîne opératoire as a framework for investigating prehistoric textile production: Production of clay textile tools in Middle Bronze Age Crete as a ‘troublesome’ case study, Archaeological Review from Cambridge 35.1, 212–226.
Ulanowska, A. (2020) Towards engendering textile production in Middle Bronze Age Crete, in C. Michel, M. Harlow, L. Quillien eds, Textiles and Gender in Antiquity: From the Orient to the Mediterranean, Bloomsbury Classical Studies Monographs, 59-79.
Ulanowska, A. (2020) Textile Uses in Administrative Practices in Bronze Age Greece: New Evidence of Textile Impressions from the Undersides of Clay Sealings, in M. Bustamante-Álvares, E.H. Sánchez López, J.J. Ávila eds, Redefining Textile Handcraft, Structures, Tools and Production Processes, PURPUREAE VESTES VII, 413-424.
Żebrowska, K. (2020) Textiles and Seals: On Use of Seals with Textile Motifs in Bronze Age Greece, in M. Bustamante-Álvares, E.H. Sánchez López, J.J. Ávila eds, Redefining Textile Handcraft, Structures, Tools and Production Processes, PURPUREAE VESTES VII, 425-430.
Conferences
A. Ulanowska, Diachronic overview of textile techniques from textile imprints preserved on the undersides of clay sealings from Bronze Age Greece, VIII Purpureae Vestes Conference, 19-21 October, Athens, organisers: S. Spantidaki, Ch. Margariti and A. Iancu.
A. Ulanowska, Un(impress)ive yet informative: New evidence for the technical uses of textile and organic products from imprints on the undersides of clay sealings from Bronze Age Greece, 29th Congress of CIETA, 3-6 October 2022, The National Museum, Zurich.
A. Ulanowska, Mapping and disseminating the use and re-use of technical textiles in sealing practices in Bronze Age Greece, paper at the 28th EAA Virtual Annual Meeting, 2 September 2022, Session EAA #232: Dressing Europe: Mapping and Disseminating European Textile Heritage through Digital Resources, organisers: C. Costeira, F.B. Gomes and A. Iancu. Book of abstracts.
A. Ulanowska, Reading a loom weight. Preliminary observations on notation practices on textile tools from Bronze Age Greece and their potential meanings, online, The Wor(l)ds of Linear A: An integrated approach to Linear A documents and script, 24-26 May 2022, University of Cambridge, organisers: E. Salgarella.
A. Ulanowska, ‘Textiles and Seals’ project and online database. Recovering new relationships between textile production and seals, and sealing practices in Bronze Age Greece through the (SQL) queries, hybrid, Fabrics, clothes, hairstyles, shoes and ornaments: adornment and textile evidence in diachrony, 9-11 December 2021, University of Fribourg, Programme doctoral.
A. Ulanowska, Textiles and Seals: New evidence for textile production in Bronze Age Greece from seals and sealing practices, EuroWeb Portugal: Fiar, Tecer, Tingir e Corser (online), 15-16 September 2021.
A. Ulanowska, Ariadne’s Thread Reconsidered: The Evidence for Yarns and Cordage in the Aegean Bronze Age from the Impressions on Undersides of Clay Sealings, NESAT XIV Finland (online), 23-26 August 2021. Archaeological Textiles Research Channel.
K. Bigoraj, Woolly animals and where to find them. Sheep and goats in Aegean glyptic, paper at the 9th Postgraduate Zooarchaeology Forum (PZAF), 25-27 June 2021. Programme.
A. Ulanowska, Textiles and Seals. New evidence for textile production in Bronze Age Greece from seals and clay sealings, paper at the CTR Anniversary Conference ‘Old Textiles, More Possibilities’, 14-18 June 2021. Programme.
Textiles and Seals. Relationships between Textile Production and Seals and Sealing Practices in the Bronze to Iron Age Mediterranean and the Near East Workshop – 22-23 March 2021, Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw and online. The Workshop was organised as part of the “Textiles and Seals” research project of the National Science Centre of Poland (ref. no. 2017/26/D/HS3/00145) and the COST action CA 19131 “EuroWeb. Europe Through Textiles: Network for an integrated and interdisciplinary Humanities.”
T&S team presentations: Olga Krzyszkowska, A rare and enigmatic practice: seal-impressed textile tools in the Aegean Bronze Age; Agata Ulanowska, Katarzyna Żebrowska, Kinga Bigoraj, Piotr Kasprzyk, Launch of the ‘Textiles and Seals’ online database
Programme and recordings of the selected presentations.
A. Ulanowska, Why not wool? The evidence for raw materials and technical uses of textile products from imprints on the undersides of clay sealings from Bronze Age Greece, paper at the THEFBO conference: The significance of archaeological textiles, International online conference 24th-25th February 2021. Book of Abstracts.
A. Ulanowska, Challenges for fibre identification from textile imprints on the undersides of direct object sealings from Bronze Age Greece, paper at the 26th EAA Virtual Annual Meeting, 28 August 2020, Session #445: Multidisciplinary approaches to identify and preserve fibres and textile products in the archaeological field, organisers: F. Coletti, V. Forte, Ch. Margariti and S. Spantidaki.
A. Ulanowska, More about the technical uses of textiles: Comparing textile imprints from Bronze Age Lerna, Mainland Greece, and Phaistos, Crete, paper at the 26th EAA Virtual Annual Meeting, 27 August 2020, Session #441: Weaving mobility. Movement of People, Tools, and Techniques in the Textile Archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean, organisers: B. Dimova, A. Quercia and F. Meo. EAA 2020 Virtual Meeting, Abstract Book
A. Ulanowska, Textile production and administrative practices in Bronze Age Greece: the evidence from seals and seal-impressions, VII PURPUREAE VESTES International Symposium ‘Redefining textile handcraft. Structures, tools and production processes’, 2-4 October 2019, Universidad de Granada, organisers: M.B. Álvarez, E.H. Sánchez López and J.J. Ávila.
K. Żebrowska, Textiles and seals: on use of seals with textile motives in Bronze Age Greece, poster presentation at VII PURPUREAE VESTES International Symposium ‘Redefining textile handcraft. Structures, tools and production processes’, 2-4 October 2019, Universidad de Granada, organisers: M.B. Álvarez, E.H. Sánchez López and J.J. Ávila. Books of abstracts, Purpureae Vestes VII 2019
A. Ulanowska, Textiles and seals: Investigating relations between textile production and seals and sealing practices in Bronze Age Greece using statistical methods, Session # 133: ‘Ancient Textile Production from an Interdisciplinary Approach: Humanities and Natural Sciences Interwoven for our Understanding of Textiles’, 25th EAA Annual Meeting, 4-7 September 2019, Bern, organisers: A. Ulanowska, K. Grömer, J. Dyer and I. Vanden Berghe. Abstract download.
A. Ulanowska, Seal-impressed textile tools from Bronze Age Greece. Towards understanding the practice of seal impressing on clay spindle whorls and loom weights, Conference ‘Dynamics and Organisation of Textile Production in Past Societies in Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East’, 24-25 June 2019, Toruń, organisers: M. Grupa, K. Grömer, J. Maik and A. Ulanowska.
M.-L. Nosch and A. Ulanowska, Materiality of the Cretan Hieroglyphic Script. Textile production-related forms of the Hieroglyphic signs on seals and sealings from Middle Bronze Age Crete, CREWS project conference: ‘Exploring the Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Systems’, 14-16 March 2019, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, organisers: P. Steele and P. Boyes.
A. Ulanowska, Towards engendering textile production in Middle Bronze Age Crete – paper presented at the ‘Textiles & Gender: Production to wardrobe from the Orient to the Mediterranean in Antiquity’ conference, Nanterre, 4-6 October 2018, organisers: C. Michel, M. Harlow & L. Quillien.
A. Ulanowska, Textile production in Aegean glyptic. On interpreting small-scale representations on seals and sealings from Bronze Age Greece – paper presented at the 24th EAA Meeting in Barcelona, 7 September 2018, session 532: ‘Textiles in Ancient Iconography’ organisers: M. Żuchowska, C. Brøns & S. Harris.
A. Ulanowska, Nowy projekt badawczy. Tekstylia i pieczęcie. Relacje pomiędzy produkcją włókienniczą a pieczęciami i praktykami stemplowania w Grecji epoki brązu – paper presented at the conference ‘Archeologia włókiennictwa w Polsce – nowe badania, nowi badacze’, 27-28 March 2018, Warsaw, organisers: A. Ulanowska, M. Woźniak & M. Żuchowska.
3-D scanning of casts with textile impressions in the CMS Archive Heidelberg
Casts of two lumps of clay with textile impressions, coming from Middle Bronze Age Phaistos, Crete and stored in the CMS Archive in Heidelberg, have been scanned by Emmanouil Spanoudakis and Jochanan Abitbol in January 2020. The silicone casts chosen for 3-D scanning were taken from a so-called peg-sealing with cord and textile impressions (inv. no. PH=HMs 790) and from a surface bearing a flat impression of an open tabby textile, possibly decorated with supplemental thicker thread (inv. no. PH=HMs 697). Photos of the scanned casts are shown together with photos taken by A. Ulanowska with a Dino-Lite microscope. Black arrows indicate a textile impression on PH 790 and what is interpreted as the supplemental thread on PH 697.
A. Ulanowska expresses her thanks to Prof. Diamantis Panagiotopoulos and the entire CMS team for making the CMS collection fully available for her studies.
Lectures and seminars
A. Ulanowska, invited lecture at the Polish Archaeological Institute at Athens, hybrid, entitled: Impressed, Unimpressive, yet Informative: New evidence for the technical textiles from imprints on the undersides of clay sealings from Bronze Age Greece, Tuesday 8 November 2022, at 17:00 CET.
A. Ulanowska, invited presentation at the ICS Mycenaean Seminar, entitled: ‘Not Only Clothing. The Consumption of Textiles in Bronze Age Greece and New Evidence for Technical Textiles from Imprints on the Undersides of Clay Sealings’, Wednesday 12 January 2022 at 3:30 pm (UK time).
It is necessary for all attendees to register in advance by visiting the following page https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24931 and clicking on the ‘Book now’ button.
A. Ulanowska, invited presentation at the meeting of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Committee for the Mediterranean Archaeology, entitled: Nie tylko szaty… Produkcja włókiennicza i tekstylia w świetle wyników badań nad relacjami pomiędzy włókiennictwem a pieczęciami i praktykami stemplowania w Grecji epoko brązu, 18 October 2022 at 17:00.
A. Ulanowska, invited online lecture at the Institute of Classical Archaeology, Charles University, Prague, entitled: ‘Textiles and Seals in Bronze Age Greece. Relations and Interactions‘, 7 April 2021, 17:30 CET.
Dr Alessandro Quercia, Soprintendenza Archeologia belle Arti e Paesaggio per la citta metropolitana di Torino, invited lecture entitled: ‘Marked, decorated and seal-impressed – on the practice of marking textile tools in Ancient Italy’ , 6th March 2020, 11:30, Institute of Archaeology UW, room 210.
A. Ulanowska, seminar in the CMS Archive Heidelberg, entitled ‘Textiles and Seals in Bronze Age Greece. The new evidence of textiles from the casts of undersides of clay sealings stored in the CMS Archive in Heidelberg‘, 22 January 2020.
Prof. Catherine Breniquet, Université Clermont Auvergne, invited lecture entitled: ‘Weaving in Mesopotamia in early periods’, 17 June 2019, 13:00 Institute of Archaeology UW, room 209.
‘Textiles and Seals’ in media
Nauka w Polsce: “Nieznane rodzaje starożytnych greckich tekstyliów zidentyfikowała polska badaczka”
Archaeology: Study Analyzes Imprints of Fabrics on Bronze Age Seals
Polish Radio Jedynka/Eureka: “Polska badaczka odkrywa tajemnice starożytnych greckich… tekstyliów”
I was blown away by Agata Ulanowska and Marie-Louise Nosch's paper on imagery and script signs related to weaving in Cretan Hieroglyphic writing. Even though this is what I work on, they opened my eyes to so many things I had not noticed before! https://t.co/7IYHJ3JJ7a
— VIEWS Project 🌈 (@crewsproject) August 5, 2019
