Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Wool Economy in the Ancient Near East and the Aegean; Chapter 1: Bronze and Iron Age Wools in Europe; Chapter 2: The Expansion of Sheep Herding and the Development of Wool Productionin the Ancient Near East: An Archaeozoological and Iconographical Approach; Chapter 3: Sheep, Wool and Textile Production. An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Complexity of Wool Working; Chapter 4: The Archaeology of Wool in Early Mesopotamia: Sources, Methods, Perspectives Chapter 5: Lambs of the Gods. The Beginnings of the Wool Economy in Proto-Cuneiform TextsChapter 6: The Value of Wool in Early Bronze Age Mesopotamia. On the Control of Sheep and the Handling of Wool in the Presargonic to the Ur III Periods (c. 2400-2000 BC); Chapter 7: Wool in the Economy of Sargonic Mesopotamia; Chapter 8: From Weighing Wool to Weaving Tools. Textile Manufacture at Ebla during the Early Syrian Period in the Light of Archaeological Evidence; Chapter 9: Some Aspects of the Wool Economy at Ebla (Syria, 24th Century BC) Chapter 10: Making Textiles at Arslantepe, Turkey, in the 4th and 3rd Millennia BC. Archaeological Data and Experimental ArchaeologyChapter 11: Wool Economy in the Royal Archive of Mari during the Šakkanakku Period; Chapter 12: All Wool and a Yard Wide. Wool Production and Trade in Old Babylonian Sippar; Chapter 13: Wool Trade in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria According to Old Babylonian and Old Assyrian Texts; Chapter 14: Wool in Anatolia in the Old Assyrian Period; Chapter 15: Wool Economy in Minoan Crete before Linear B. A Minimalist Position ; Chapter 16: Wool in the Nuzi Texts Chapter 17: Wool Production and Economy at UgaritChapter 18: Sheep Rearing, Wool Production and Management in Mycenaean Written Documents; Chapter 19: Mycenaean Wool Economies in the Latter Part of the 2nd Millennium BC Aegean; Chapter 20: Wool, Hair and Textiles in Assyria; Chapter 21: "If you have sheep, you have all you need". Sheep Husbandry and Wool in the Economy of the Neo-Babylonian Ebabbar Temple at Sippar; Chapter 22: Fabrics and Clothes from Mesopotamia during the Achaemenid and Seleucid Periods: The Textual References