2023-05-01 13:56:17
Traces of sewing dating back 39,000 years show that the first A wise man were probably better dressed than their cousins to face the long winters of this ice age.
While the Earth was still populated by several different human groups, populations ofA wise man natives of Africa ventured out of their African cradle some 60,000 years ago. Arrived in Western Europe a little over 40,000 years ago, in the middle of the ice age, they then faced particularly difficult climates. A recent archaeological find at an open-air site in northeast Spain, shows that these groups used punching techniques to make tight-fitting clothes to withstand the cold (Science Advances, April 12, 2023) which may have played a key role in their survival.
On the left, excavations carried out at the archaeological site of Canyars, in Catalonia. On the right, from top to bottom, retouched flint blade typical of the Aurignacian, bone with marks produced by punching and experimental perforations produced in leather with the same technique Photos Montserrat Sanz Borras, Francesco d’Errico, Luc Doyon
The archeology of clothing is a delicate discipline. Unlike tools, or human remains, fabrics and skins are not preserved long enough to reach us. However, it is difficult to imagine the first A wise man Europeans (or even their Neanderthal cousins who populated the old continent…
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