The Mummies of Urumchi and Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years by Elizabeth Wayland Barber

I second that. Also, Dr Barber's Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with special reference to the Aegean is a great read, too. I heard her lecture a few times at UCLA IE Linguistics and Archeology conferences, and she is an elegant speaker. Her husband, Paul Barber, is no slouch either. He has written a great book called Vampires, Burial, and Death.

Ceci n'est pas un seing.