JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. Linguistic Society of America is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Language. Prehistoric textiles: The development of cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, with special reference to the Aegean. By E. J. W. BARBER. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. Pp. xxxi, 471. Reviewed by DOUGLAS Q. ADAMS, University of IdahoBy anyone's reckoning this is an exciting, indeed exemplary, work. Its chronological sweep includes roughly the last seven millennia before Christ, its geographical coverage includes Europe, the Near East, and Egypt. Intellectually it brings together archaeology, linguistics, and a practical knowledge of textiles and their weaving, plaiting, felting, etc. It is profusely illustrated and very well written. Readers of this journal will be most interested in Barber's use of linguistic data in this vast panorama. Any reader, who is bound to be a neophyte in one or more of the areas covered, is brought along easily and educated as he or she goes. The wealth of material treated can be gauged by the titles of the various chapters: 'The domestication of fibers' (9-38); 'Spinning' (39-78); 'Looms and weaving' (79-125); 'The textile weaves: The beginnings' (126-144); 'The textile weaves: Egypt' (145-62); 'The textile weaves: The Bronze Age' (163-185); 'The textile weaves: The Iron Age' (186-209); 'The textile weaves: An overall view' (210-214); 'Felt and felting' (215-222); 'Dyes' (223-43); 'Beginnings revisited' (249-59); 'Word excavation' (260-82); 'Women's work' (283-98); 'The weight chase' (299-310); 'Minoans, Myceneans, and Keftiu' (311-57); 'And Penelope?' (358-82). Since textiles are rare in the archaeological record, preserved only under exceptional circumstances, the basic data for reconstructing the prehistory of textile manufacture and use is slim, and new accessions of data are rare ( since the book's publication we have had the discoveries of both the Iceman of Tyrol and the Xinjiang mummies-a truly exceptional outpouring of new data). From this scant data B has woven a rich tapestry that is a 'must read' for a wide audience of archaeologists and (pre-)historians, including historical linguists.In two places B's argument turns more or less exclusively linguistic: in an appendix to Ch. 1, labeled 'The archeolinguistics of hemp' and in Ch. 12, 'Word excavation'. In the first she tackles the well-known set of words that mean 'hemp' in various Indo-European languages: Lith kanapes, OPrus knapios, Rus konopljd, OE hwnep, ON hampr, German Hanf, Latin cannabis, Greek kannabis, Sanskrit sana-. Similar forms occur in non-Indo-European languages as well, e.g. Turkish kenevir, Karakalpak kenep, and Cheremis kenelkine. Even OHALA, JOHN....

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. This content downloaded from 128.235.NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS 01063 60 Although I have not entered into any discussion of the pottery found in the Royal Tomb, it may be worth noting that at the December 1981 meeting of the AIA in San Francisco, Susan I. Rotroff read a paper on "Royal Salt Cellars from the Athenian Agora." Three examples of a distinctive form of salt cellar, found in closed deposits, suggest a date between 325 and 295 for this shape. Miss Rotroff points out that "a group of similar spool salt cellars" was found in the Royal Tomb and announces her hope that the analogy between the salt cellars found in the Agora and those recovered at Vergina may aid "in establishing a date and identification for that monument." Quotations are from the abstract published in AIA 86 (1982) 283. NEW KINGDOM EGYPTIAN TEXTILES: EMBROIDERY VS. WEAVING1 This content downloaded from 128.235.

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