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Title: Waist Compression in the Aegean Late Bronze Age
Authors: Younger, John G.
Keywords: Minoan
corsetting
Issue Date: 2000
Publisher: Archaeological News
Type: Article
Citation: "Waist Compression in the Aegean Late Bronze Age," Archaeological News 23 (1998-2000) 1-9
Abstract: Elite Minoan women (Bronze Age Crete) practiced waist compression (or corsetting). This study gives the evidence for this practice and uses the experience of modern practictioners of waist compression, as given in blogs on websites, to reproduce the experience of the ancient Minoans.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/4301
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