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Cordage and fabrics are often technologically complex products, with attributes that can range widely in visibility. As a consequence, they can express a variety of processes and constraints, both active and passive. These include technological, ideological, social-structural, social-psychological, personal psychological, and physiological factors (Carr, Chapter 7; Pryor and Carr, Chapter 8). Like ceramics and lithics, cordage and fabrics have the potential to be used archaeologically or ethnographically in the basic tasks of defining social groups, reconstructing patterns of interaction, communication, and movement of persons within and between societies, and revealing patterns of individual creativity. In some cases, these potentials have been tapped (e.g., Taylor 1948; Fry and Adovasio 1970; Newton 1974; Scholtz 1975; Hurley 1979; Croes 1980, 1989; Kent 1983, 1985; Washburn and Crowe 1988; Washburn, Chapter 4).
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Carr, C., Maslowski, R.F. (1995). Cordage and Fabrics. In: Carr, C., Neitzel, J.E. (eds) Style, Society, and Person. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1097-4_9
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