Dr Irene Good

AHRC Research Fellow

Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art
Dyson Perrins Building, South Parks Rd, Oxford, OX1 3QY

fax: 01865 285220

email: irene.good@rlaha.ox.ac.uk

 

Research Interests

My research focuses on Iran and Central Asia (currently co-directing an active archaeological fieldwork program in Tajikistan). I specialize in archaeological textiles, studying textile materials from several vantage points. A palaeo-environmental perspective sets the stage for understanding fiber procurement, botanical dye materials, local ecologies of production, and differentiating between local and exotic sources. A material perspective enables sharper interpretation of value, symbolic resonance and other semiotic domains in the material record. From a physical and biochemical perspective, I utilize and sometimes modify high-resolution instrumentation and biochemical protocols in order to identify organic textile materials of a highly degraded nature, to better understand and more fully interpret information gleaned from rare archaeological textile remains.

Publications

Journal Articles & Conference Proceedings

2011
Good, I., Kenoyer, J.M. and Meadow, R., (2011), A Reply to Ji-Huan He, Archaeometry, 53(3)
Good, I., Mortazevi, M. and Mishmasi, M., (2011), Bronze Age Textiles: a preliminary analysis of fragments discovered at Tepe Dasht, Sistan, Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies, 1

Contributions to Edited Books

2011
Good, I., (2011), Strands of Connectivity: Assessing the evidence for Long Distance Exchange of Silk in Later Prehistoric Eurasia: in “Sherratt, S., Barrett, J. Bennett, J. and Wilkinson, T. (eds.), Interweaving Worlds: Papers in Honour of Andrew Sherratt”, pp , Oxbow Press.
Good, I., (2011), Exploring Inner Asia’s High Alpine Frontier: High Alpine Transhumant Pastoralism, Vertical Cultivation and Environmental Archaeology: in “Frenez, D. and Tosi, M. (eds.), The Lower Vakhsh-Panj Confluence and Gorno-Badakhshan Regions, Southern Tajikistan 19th European Association of South Asian Archaeologists Conference Proceedings, Ravenna 2007”, pp .
Good, I., (2011), Textiles in the Ancient Near East : in “Potts, D. (ed.), Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East”, pp , Blackwells.
2010
Good, I., (2010), When East Met West: Interpretive Problems in Assessing East-West Contact and Exchange in Antiquity: in “Betts, A.V.G. and Kidd, F. (eds.), New directions in Silk Road archaeology. Proceedings of a Workshop held at ICAANE V, Madrid, 2006,”, pp , Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan Vol. 42. .
Good, I., (2010), History of Textiles and their Influence on Dress on the Iranian Plateau : in “Encyclopedia of Women’s Dress”, pp , Berg Publishers, Oxford.
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