Editors' preface TEXTILES TEXTILES IN PRE-ROMAN ITALY: FROM QUALITATIVE TO QUANTITATIVE APPROACH Margarita Gleba NEW TEXTILE FINDS FROM TOMBA DELL'ARYBALLOS SOSPESO, TARQUINIA: CONTEXT, ANALYSIS AND PRELIMINARY INTERPRETATION Margarita Gleba, Alessandro Mandolesi, Maria Rosa Lucidi TEXTILES AND RITUALS IN CUMAEAN CREMATION BURIALS Margarita Gleba, Ilaria Menale, Carlo Rescigno THE CLOTHES MAKE THE (WO)MAN: HISTORICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS OF ETRUSCAN FEMALE COSTUMES BETWEEN 8TH AND 7TH CENTURY BC Alessio De Cristofaro, Alessandra Piergrossi BICONICAL VASE AND OLD LACE AT NARCE. NEW DATA FROM THE NECROPOLIS OF LA PETRINA - TOMB C1 (LXII) Jacopo Tabolli TEXTILE PRODUCTS, CONSUMERS AND PRODUCERS IN THE HALLSTATT CULTURE Karina Gr�mer TEXTILES AND CLOTHING TRADITIONS IN EARLY IRON AGE DENMARK Ulla Mannering EXPERIMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY MOTION CAPTURE AND TEXTILE EXPERIMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY, A POSSIBLE COMBINATION Eva Andersson Strand, Stefan Lindgren, Carolina Larsson TESTING ANCIENT TEXTILE TOOLS IN SOUTHERN ETRURIA (CENTRAL ITALY): EXPERIMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY VERSUS EXPERIENTIAL ARCHAEOLOGY Romina Laurito TRACING THE THREAD: SPINNING EXPERIMENTS WITH ETRUSCAN SPINDLE WHORL REPLICAS Elena Ciccarelli, Assunta Perilli TRACEOLOGICAL ANALYSES APPLIED TO TEXTILE IMPLEMENTS: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE METHOD THROUGH THE CASE STUDY OF THE 1ST MILLENNIUM BC CERAMIC TOOLS IN CENTRAL ITALY Vanessa Forte, Cristina Lemorini TOOL STUDIES SPINNING AND WEAVING IN THE PILE DWELLING OF MOLINA DI LEDRO (TRENTO, NORTHEASTERN ITALY): NOTES ON WOODEN TOOLS Patrizia Petitti, Romina Laurito, Ettore Pizzuti, Margarita Gleba, Paolo Maria Guarrera, Daniela Bordoni TEXTILE TOOLS FROM THE AGER FALISCUS AREA IN THE IRON AGE: ARE THEY ALWAYS FUNCTIONAL TOOLS? Maria Anna De Lucia Brolli, Romina Laurito A LOOM FOR THE GODDESS ? TOOLS FOR SPINNING AND WEAVING FROM THE SANCTUARY OF THE GODDESS REITIA IN ESTE (PADUA) Giovanna Gambacurta TEXTILE PRODUCTION ALONG THE IONIAN COAST OF CALABRIA DURING THE ARCHAIC PERIOD: THE CASE OF KAULONIA Maria Rosaria Luberto, Francesco Meo TEXTILE PRODUCTION AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGES IN THE ARCHAIC SOCIETIES OF MAGNA GRAECIA: THE CASE OF TORRE DI SATRIANO (LUCANIA, ITALY) Alessandro Quercia ICONOGRAPHY AND WRITTEN SOURCES THE FEMALE PENSUM IN THE ARCHAIC AND HELLENISTIC PERIOD: THE EPINETRON, THE SPINDLE, AND THE DISTAFF Helga Di Giuseppe INSCRIBED OBJECTS ASSOCIATED WITH TEXTILE PRODUCTION: NEWS FROM TARQUINIA Giovanna Bagnasco Gianni, Maria Cataldi, Giulio M. Facchetti TEXTILE PRODUCTION IN IRON AGE GREECE: THE CASE OF THE AMORGINA TEXTILES Stella Spantidaki RECENSIONI / REVIEWS