{"id":202,"date":"2006-02-11T08:03:35","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T22:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=202"},"modified":"2006-02-11T21:30:17","modified_gmt":"2006-02-11T11:30:17","slug":"202","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=202","title":{"rendered":"Bronze Age textiles in Copenhagen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel I should respond to the message left by gentleman on <a href='http:\/\/inaminuteago.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/08\/05\/bronze-age-clothing\/' target='_blank ' > Sharon&#8217;s blog<\/a>, commenting on <a href='http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=17' target='_blank ' >my post  <\/a>on the ancient textiles at the National Museum of Denmark at Copenhagen. He is claiming that the images show Iron Age clothing, whereas the the pictures are actually of Bronze Age clothing. I refer the gentleman to p.160 of the museum guide &#8220;Nationalmuseets &#8211; Arbejdsmark 2000&#8221; published by the National Museum in 2001 (ISBN 87-89384-76-8). The Wikkipedia notes that the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nordic_Bronze_Age\">Nordic Bronze Age<\/a> covers the period 1800BC to 600BC (add 2000 years for number of years ago), and is divided into roughly six sub-periods. The clothing in question therefore comes from the early Bronze Age.<\/p>\n<p>This is a Bronze Age man&#8217;s cloak and hood &#8211; and an accompanying hat &#8211; both dated  by the burial coffin&#8217;s tree rings to 3,351 years ago from Borum Eshoj near Arhus<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/vikingmanhood.jpg' alt='Danish bronze age clothing' \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a Bronze Age dress and collar-piece from a woman buried 3,370 years ago at Egtved.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/vikingdress.jpg' alt='Bronze age dress, Denmark' \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a recreation of a dress in the style of the Bronze Age dress &#8211; the colours taken from a chemical analysis of the original dyes used. The original was stained brown by the chemical action of the bog which preserved it.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/vikingdressblue.jpg' alt='recreation of bronze age woman\\&#39;s dress' \/><\/p>\n<p>I invite the person concerned to leave a comment on my blog here so that I can respond more directly.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel I should respond to the message left by gentleman on Sharon&#8217;s blog, commenting on my post on the ancient textiles at the National Museum of Denmark at Copenhagen. He is claiming that the images show Iron Age clothing, whereas the the pictures are actually of Bronze Age clothing. I refer the gentleman to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}