Elsa Yvanez
Associate Professor
SAXO-Institute - Archaeology, Ethnology, Greek & Latin, History
Karen Blixens Plads 8, 2300 København S
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Elsa Yvanez is an archaeologist specialised in the textile production of the ancient Nile valley, in the chaine opératoire and economic significance of spinning and weaving, as well as in the use of textiles for clothing and burial. She is associate professor of textile archaeology at the Centre for Textile Research, Saxo institute, at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH). From 2022, she is leading the Fashioning Sudan. Archaeology of dress practices along the Middle Nile project with the support of the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme (ERC Starting Grant 101039416).
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Spinning North and South. The great divide in textile craft technologies in Meroitic Sudan and Nubia (0-550 CE)
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Tightening the thread from seed to cloth. New enquiries in the archaeology of Old World cotton: A case for inter-disciplinarity
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Cotton in ancient Sudan and Nubia: archaeological sources and historical implications
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