Neanderthals were tanning animal skins more than 100,000 years ago. Photograph: Nikola Solic/Reuters
Posted on 05/25/2013 6:50:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
...People were already making finely worked bone needles 20,000 years ago, probably for embroidery as much as sewing animal skins, like the thousands of ivory beads and fox teeth that covered the bodies of a girl and a boy buried at Sunghir, Russia, around 28,000 years ago. This was some serious bling, representing years of accumulated work.
And -- caveman stereotypes aside -- stone age clothes weren't just animal skins. We've known since the 1990s that people were weaving fabric back then, revealed by impressions in baked clay from the sites of Pavlov and Dolni Vestonice in the Czech Republic. We don't actually know for sure that these were used for clothes, but the materials weren't heavy duty, and the variety in weaving styles suggests a long tradition. And at Dzudzuana Cave in Georgia, 30,000 year old spun plant fibres were found which had been dyed: pink, black and turquoise blue!
...Another study looked at what modern day hunter-gatherers wear according to the local climate, and built a model predicting what Neanderthals would have needed to wear to stay warm. Even after correcting for Neanderthals being able to cope better with the cold, the results suggested they would have needed to cover at least 80% of their body during cold periods, especially hands and feet.
Quite astonishingly, there is physical evidence that Neanderthals more than 100,000 years ago were tanning animal skins -- a stone tool from the site of Neumark-Nord in Germany has preserved scraps of organic material stuck to it that were soaked in tannin, the substance in oak bark used to make leather. It was probably part of the tool handle that got wet while the hides were being worked.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Neanderthals were tanning animal skins more than 100,000 years ago. Photograph: Nikola Solic/Reuters
The Neandertal Enigma"Frayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]
by James Shreeve
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Neanderthal tools had handles. That’s exceedingly advanced thinking.
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Perhaps a better question would be, “Who created the clothes that keep falling apart all the self important people, so-called “stars” wear? Those dresses that keep falling apart everytime they go out in public. Perhaps they need to find better tailors, maybe a few neanderthals to teach them how to sew.
Clothes were invented by people in cold climates. That makes sense to me.
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I.Magnin traces can be found on clothes at the Maceys til now where most Cro-Magnons still shop since I.Magnin was conquered by the Macies.
There is no trace of where Neanderthals shopped for clothes since there is such a large GAP in their history.
It is rumored that the Neanderthal women shopped for sexy clothes [it didn`t help]near VICTORIA, Queensland, Australia, but its location is a long-forgotten SECRET.
Photographic evidence always makes it more convincing. ; / )
Well, I read the whole article. The author criticizes the authors of a Q & A column for not addressing the subject seriously, but the “post doctoral” she doesn’t either. I think a better answer to her question lies in the Bible narrative — Adam and Eve wore the first clothes.
She did offer some interesting insights, however.
Adam and Eve.
They did a documentary on this in the 1960’s, it was called “The Flintstones”.
The caveman Ar-Mani.
OMG, I saw that! It should have won awards for cinematography. And informative? My Lord, everything I know about cavemen, I learned from the Flintstones. ;)
Very clever! Evolution marches on ...
More importantly - Who invented the T-shirt?
If they were that smart 100,000 years ago, it seems to me like they would have dominated the earth long before the last 6 thousand years and there would be massive evidence of them.
I think the time frame has to be wrong. Extrapolate backwards the population growth of man and it doesn't support a 100,000 year time frame. And certainly not a 100,000 year time frame where man was highly intelligent the whole time.
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