http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/1325 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/culture-society/articles/reading-ancient-textiles <!--paging_filter--><p>Irene Good is an expert in ancient textiles, a specialist who examines cloth that is ages-old to find out facts about the people who made it. Good has a one-year appointment as the Hrdy Visiting Curator in Anthropology at Harvard. Good's painstaking analysis of artifacts -- such as the nearly 5,000 ancient Peruvian textile pieces contained in Harvard's Peabody Museum -- will provide important data about the Incan civilization from which they came. Just as pottery fragments provide archaeologists with evidence by which to date events or chart the movements of people or the flow of goods and ideas, textiles furnish their own set of clues, which shed light on such things as agriculture, animal husbandry, trade, and technology.</p> <p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/culture-society/articles/reading-ancient-textiles">read more</a></p> Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:19:46 -0400 70652986 3135 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu