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The past re-made: the case of oriental carpets
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2015
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Old carpets, as informative material objects, are therefore the proper stuff of archaeology. Aspects of the carpet world offer food for thought as to how entities we recognize among the debris of antiquity come to be recognized and valued. Here James Mellaaart's recorded paintings from Çatal Hüyük, which ‘surfaced’ a generation after the dig was completed, have now come to have an unexpected role.
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