Trousers

[Sean Manning]

Is there a recent overview of evidence for trousers between the Rhine and the Oder up to the first century CE?  There are Marx-Etzel man's braccae and tunica (very Roman looking!) from the first century CE, and the Gundestrup Cauldron (but we don't know what regional fashions it depicts or when it was made) and all the Roman imperial art which probably shows generic barbarians.

Karl Schlabow's book is getting kind of old and the new research by scholars in Denmark focusses on issues like dye, chronology, and decayed organic fibres (Huldremose woman wore a hemp, linen, or nettle tunic!) https://www.researchgate.net/publication..._revisited There is also a trend in research to see material culture in barbaricum as 'imitation Roman' whereas earlier research tended to see it as part of a timeless indigenous tradition. Edit: I liked the paper by Anne Kwaspen and Antoine De Moor on trousers in the Imperial Roman world, but it focuses on finds from 200-1000 CE.

Schlabow, Karl. Textilfunde der Eisenzeit in Norddeutschland. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumunster, 1976

Edit: looks like the last time I asked this was in 2011