Monday, April 17, 2023

Bone fragment reveals humans wore leather clothes 39,000 years ago

An analysis of a 39,600-year-old bone containing strange indentations claims it was used as a punch board for making holes in leather, revealing how Homo sapiens in Europe made clothes to help them survive cold climates at that time.
“We do not have much information about clothes because they’re perishable,” says Luc Doyon at the University of Bordeaux, France, who led the study. “They are an early technology we’re in the dark about.”
Bone fragment reveals humans wore leather clothes 39,000 years ago

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