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Prehistoric string theory. How twisted fibres helped to shape the world

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Karen Hardy
Karen Hardy*
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*BioArch, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5YW, UK (Email: karhardy@gmail.com)
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The author reviews the role of string in early human communities, using prehistoric and ethnographic evidence. Fibres, rolled into string, offer a technical means of holding things together; but the process of manufacturing string itself inspired special roles and structures - which in turn held together the members of communities.

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prehistorystringfibrecordtechnologyethnologybags
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Research article
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Antiquity , Volume 82 , Issue 316 , June 2008 , pp. 271 - 280
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2008

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