Basketweaving has been around at least 27,000 years. It’s not as complicated as, say, cribbage, so it probably didn’t take thousands of years to develop or perfect, seems not unlikely that weaving has been around much earlier than that.
http://discovermagazine.com/1996/jan/thebasketage619
I’m sticking with red hair, light skin and enhanced antibodies as positive genetic deviations to the basket weaving cultures.