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To: SunkenCiv
"Our guess is that our ancestors used it as a cover or bedding," Zhang said in an email interview. "Its exact use is open to discussion."

I think it's is a safe bet that "our ancestors" put a flat, reed mat either over or under something.

4 posted on 01/17/2016 2:31:52 AM PST by Tax-chick (Onions are a woman's weapon.)
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It also makes me wonder about the antiquity of reed vessels.


8 posted on 01/17/2016 5:47:52 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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