Study uncovers invention of clothing goes back 120,000 years
These discoveries, first unearthed from Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco in 2011, are indications of the invention of clothing, and the development of tools necessary to create it.
View of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, on May 2, 2018. (photo credit: YOSSI ZAMIR/FLASH90)
A new study by Arizona State University (ASU) and published this week in iScience
examined more than 60 tools made of bone and tooth from whales,
dolphins and porpoises to find highly likely evidence for the earliest
clothing in archaeological record, dating as far back as 120,000 years
ago.
These discoveries, first unearthed from the Contrebandiers Cave in Morocco in 2011, are indications of the invention of clothing, and the development of tools necessary to create it.
ASU
archaeologists noted in the study that the development of clothing, the
origin of which still remains vastly misunderstood, was crucial in
enabling early humans to expand their niche from Pleistocene Africa into
new surroundings with new challenges.
Among
nearly 12,000 bone fragments, researchers found more than 60 animal
bones that had been shaped by humans to be used as tools. They also
uncovered a pattern of cut marks on the carnivore bones suggesting that,
rather than processing them for meat, Moroccans were skinning them to create fur.
A woman is seen wearing a fur coat. ( PIXABAY photo )
“This
was a critical time period and location for the early members of our
species,” said ASU doctoral graduate Emily Hallett, a co-leader of the
study.
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