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To: Sacajaweau; SunkenCiv
... the cave's inhabitants may have used numerous plant species for a variety of purposes, including for medicine, dye, or yarn.

The researchers found evidence of human occupation and evidence of the plants. One possibility is that the plant material ended up there without human involvement: animals, wind, etc. Another possibility is that the people brought the plants there.

If the people brought what seem to be non-food plants to the site, then medicines, dye, or yarn are some of the possible uses.

Maybe a week from now, researchers will find the same kind of material in another site that has more evidence about how the plants got there or were used.

5 posted on 10/23/2022 5:13:40 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
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To: Tax-chick

If there’s just a big pile of every kind of plant, then they could have just washed in. But there’s no reason to think that’s the case.


6 posted on 10/23/2022 5:20:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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