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To: arrogantsob

The oldest known instance of textiles survived as an imprint on clay only — these were reed matting or possibly baskets which left a beautiful clear impression on wet clay, which then dried and preserved the image. This was found in Europe somewhere, is circa 30K years old.

Oh, okay, here are some 30K year old flax fibers, from Georgia (in Europe, not US):

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112726804


5 posted on 04/21/2011 9:42:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: SunkenCiv

Interesting. I was hoping the opening article would say what kind of plant was used in the Peruvian textiles.


6 posted on 04/21/2011 11:45:03 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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