caa a22 4500 445359153 CHVBK 20180317142910.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00334-011-0296-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00334-011-0296-0 Cotton cultivation and textile production in the Arabian Peninsula during antiquity; the evidence from Madâ'in Sâlih (Saudi Arabia) and Qal'at al-Bahrain (Bahrain) [Elektronische Daten] [Charlène Bouchaud, Margareta Tengberg, Patricia Dal Prà] The discovery of seeds and textiles from Gossypium (cotton) in Achaemenian levels of the mid-6th-late 4th century b.c. at Qal'at al-Bahrain, Bahrain and in early 1st millennium a.d. at Madâ'in Sâlih, Saudi Arabia, reveals the role played by the Arabian Peninsula as a textile production centre during the centuries before and after the beginning of the Christian era. Both these sites were situated on important trade routes, overseas (Qal'at al-Bahrain) and overland (Madâ'in Sâlih), and it is likely that at least part of the cotton production was intended for trade, complementing and perhaps competing with other sources of cotton textiles in the contemporary Middle East. In the arid climate of the Arabian Peninsula, cotton was probably grown in association with irrigated date palm gardens where a wide array of other crops was grown, as is shown by the analysis of charred seeds and wood from occupation levels at both sites. The present article places these particular finds in the larger context of cotton cultivation in the Middle East and India. Springer-Verlag, 2011 Cotton nationallicence Gossypium nationallicence Arabian Peninsula nationallicence Textile production nationallicence Achaemenian nationallicence Nabatean and Early Islamic periods nationallicence Bouchaud Charlène University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, UMR 7041 - Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité, 21 allée de l'Université, 92023, Nanterre, France aut Tengberg Margareta University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, UMR 7209 - Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, pratiques et environnements, 55 rue Buffon, 75005, Paris, France aut Dal Prà Patricia Département des Restaurateurs, Institut National du Patrimoine, 237 rue de Bercy, 75012, Paris, France aut Vegetation History and Archaeobotany Springer-Verlag 20/5(2011-09-01), 405-417 0939-6314 20:5<405 2011 20 334 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-011-0296-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-011-0296-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bouchaud Charlène University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, UMR 7041 - Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité, 21 allée de l'Université, 92023, Nanterre, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tengberg Margareta University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, UMR 7209 - Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, pratiques et environnements, 55 rue Buffon, 75005, Paris, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dal Prà Patricia Département des Restaurateurs, Institut National du Patrimoine, 237 rue de Bercy, 75012, Paris, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Vegetation History and Archaeobotany Springer-Verlag 20/5(2011-09-01), 405-417 0939-6314 20:5<405 2011 20 334 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer