The belt hook is a device for fastening that predates the belt buckle. [1] [2]
History
East Asia
The earliest archaeological evidence of belt hooks date to the 7th century BCE, in East Asia. [1] Belt hooks were made with bronze, iron, gold, and jade. [1] Texts from Warring States period China claim that the belt hook originates from Central Asian nomads, although belt hooks have been found in China predating the Warring States. [2] The equestrian tradition, initially foreign to China, was tightly related to wearing belted pants, thus belt hooks became one of the features of " barbaric" exoticism. As such, the hooks became an object of aesthetic contemplation. For example, Qu Yuan ( c. 340-278 BCE) compares beautiful women to the belt hooks xianbei (鮮卑). [3]
Europe
Belt hooks have also been found in Celtic archaeological sites. [4]
References
- ^ a b c Kipfer, Barbara Ann (30 April 2000). Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology. Springer. p. 64. ISBN 978-0-306-46158-3.
- ^ a b Wagner, Donald B. (1993). Iron and Steel in Ancient China. BRILL. p. 169. ISBN 978-90-04-09632-5.
- ^ Mair, Victor H. (2006). "Kinesis versus Stasis, Interaction versus Independent Invention" (PDF). In Mair, Victor H.; Bentley, Jerry H.; Yang, Anand A. (eds.). Contact and Exchange in the Ancient World. University of Hawai‘i Press. pp. 1–2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016.
- ^ Harding, D. W. (18 June 2007). Archaeology of Celtic Art. Psychology Press. p. 124. ISBN 978-0-415-35177-5.
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Media related to
Belt hooks at Wikimedia Commons
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