I have received several f great posts about textiles traded in and imported
to the Americas.  I am interested in some of the important problems of crafts
and early industries in Historical Archaeology.  I started with textiles,
because I have posted to diffeent archaeological groups from different
periods, and I knew textiles represented a craft that was fairly ubiquitous
in time and space (unlike say lithic prouction).  So far I have a score of
posts taken from various lists on the subject.  I am still interested in
information on textiles, but I also welcome information on all sorts of
crafts, cottage industries, agriculturalists who are part time specialists,
and whatever the "hot topics" of craft production and specialization in
Historic archaeology are. (Also, for those Histarchies not working in the
Americas-I am interested in information form all over the world.)