Archaeologists discover oldest-known fibre materials used by early humans

Friday, September 11, 2009 - 08:14 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A team of archaeologists and palaeobiologists has discovered flax fibres that are more than 34,000 years old, making them the oldest fibres known to have been used by humans. The fibres, discovered during systematic excavations in a cave in the Republic of Georgia, are described in this week's issue of Science...

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