"This is the oldest known string. It was made by a Neandertal" Topic
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Tango01 | 04 May 2020 12:46 p.m. PST |
"In a new twist on Neandertals' Stone Age accomplishments, our close evolutionary relatives wound bark fibers into strings that could have been used to make clothes, rope, nets and other practical but perishable items, a new study suggests. A fragment of a string made from three bark fibers was found attached to a stone tool at a French Neandertal site. That tool was embedded in sediment dating from 52,000 to 41,000 years ago, say paleoanthropologist Bruce Hardy of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, and colleagues…"
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d88mm1940 | 04 May 2020 2:17 p.m. PST |
I probably goes with the stone yo-yo found a couple meters away… |
Tango01 | 05 May 2020 12:12 p.m. PST |
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Andrew Walters | 05 May 2020 6:53 p.m. PST |
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Tango01 | 06 May 2020 12:31 p.m. PST |
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