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title: Elsa Yvanez
affiliation: Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen
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# Biography

Elsa Yvanez is an archaeologist specialised in the textile production of ancient Sudan and Nubia, in the chaine opératoire and economic significance of spinning and weaving, as well as in the use of textiles for clothing and burial. She is currently employed as an associate professor at the Centre for Textile Research/Saxo institute, at the University of Copenhagen, where she is leading the 5-year research project Fashioning Sudan. Archaeology of dress practices along the Middle Nile (ERC StG 101039416).