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« on: August 18, 2010, 07:14:16 AM »

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A recent report of an ancient textile facility, of sorts, is turning heads.1 Sifting through the debris on a cave floor in the Republic of Georgia, scientists recently discovered evidence that the early cave dwellers processed textiles in the cave. While searching for ancient pollen grains, they found tiny flax fibers in the dirt. Some of these fibers were woven, some were cut, and some were dyed black, gray, turquoise, or pink. They also discovered evidence that these people were processing fur (for clothing) and animal hides.

What is surprising about the find is that this was supposedly happening 30,000 years ago (according to the C-14 dates2 obtained from several organic samples taken from the dirt). This is prior to the advent of civilization in the evolutionary history of man. This is even prior to the invention of farming. How can primitive “cave men” have advanced textile processing skills? How could these “hunter gatherers” have had enough time to devote to textile processing when they were supposed to be focused almost solely on finding food? According to most paleontologists, a division of labor that would allow some people to devote themselves to such activities is not supposed to occur until after the advent of farming, where enough food can be produced by few enough people to allow others to do things unrelated to food production (like build cities, weave clothes, or to free up the chemistry nerds to study the properties of assorted plant dyes).
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