Women’s Work–The First 20,000 Years (W.W. Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, with special reference to the Aegean (Princeton U.P. In addition to many articles, Barber has written or co-authored eight books:Īrchaeological Decipherment (Princeton Univ. Her mother taught weaving and other textile arts (before raising a family) and transmitted a deep love and knowledge of European folk arts to her daughters. In addition to doing extensive research on the origins and development of cloth and clothing in western Eurasia, she has constantly explored possible interfaces between archaeology and linguistics, including decipherment theory and method, the archaeology of brain and language, and the evolution of modes of transmitting information (myth, ritual, dance, dress, writing, etc.). Geographically her interests revolve around the archaeology, linguistics, and ethnography of the Balkan peninsula and East Europe. Elizabeth Wayland Barber is a lifelong folkdancer as well as an archaeologist and linguist by profession, having taught at Occidental College, Los Angeles, for 37 years before retiring in 2007.
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