Your Blue Jeans Can Trace Their Origins To Peru, 6,000 Years Ago

Wednesday, September 14, 2016 - 13:41 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Science People have been coloring cloth blue for much longer than we thought A new study published in Science Advances today found that people in Peru have been dying fabrics with indigo plants for over 6,000 years, 1,500 years earlier than the…

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