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Papers collected from the Conference on PreColumbian Textiles VIII, organized by Serge LeMaitre and held at the Museum of Art and History in Brussels, Belgium March 18-22, 2019. These papers represent a considerable number of those presented orally in Brussels. Subsequently, a new version of each text and its images has been submitted for publication, sent for peer review and then revised by the author(s). As text editors and coordinators of this publication, our goal has been to facilitate each author’s project and the recognition due to all persons and institutions involved.

The 22 articles in this volume represent a large variety of themes. While a majority analyzes archaeological textiles, a significant group addresses ethnographical textiles. The essays cover areas of the Andean highlands, the Peruvian desert coast, the Gran Chaco in Argentina and also Mesoamerica, up to northern Mexico. A number of the articles describe museum collections – either to characterize textiles from a particular site or region, or to review a collection’s history. Some present excavation data, analysis of colorants or conservation processes, while others explore the worldview of historic or PreColumbian peoples through textile analysis.