{"id":4486,"date":"2023-12-27T13:59:28","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T06:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/?p=4486"},"modified":"2023-12-27T14:00:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T07:00:22","slug":"uncovering-history-the-journey-to-our-oldest-clothing-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/uncovering-history-the-journey-to-our-oldest-clothing-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncovering History: The Journey to Our Oldest Clothing Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>TLDR<\/strong>: Oldest clothes found date back 5,500 years; lice DNA suggests earlier use; ongoing research uncovers ancient textiles, tools, and Neanderthal clothing practices.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article is a summary of a You Tube video &#8220;When Did We Stop Being Naked?&#8221; by PBS Eons<br \/>\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/opg6RO9cYnk?si=IfQ0MYwp3t2df-6o\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Key Takeaways:<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Discovery of the Tarkhan Dress<\/strong>: In 1977, conservators discovered the Tarkhan Dress in William Matthews Flinders Petrie\u2019s collection, dating it to 5,500 years old, making it the oldest known piece of clothing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ancient Clothing Fragility<\/strong>: Ancient clothing rarely survives in archaeological records due to its fragility, and preserved pieces are often found in extreme environmental conditions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Older Textile Evidence<\/strong>: Excavations at \u00c7atalh\u00f6y\u00fck, Turkey, revealed textile fragments from about 8,500 years ago, 3,000 years older than the Tarkhan Dress.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Clothing as a Process<\/strong>: Clothing is seen as the endpoint of various processes including fiber creation, fabric weaving, and garment assembly.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Early Textile Production Evidence<\/strong>: In Dzudzuana Cave, Georgia, 30,000-year-old dyed flax fibers suggest an ancient local textile industry.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Oldest Clothing Evidence from Tools<\/strong>: A needle from Sibudu Cave, South Africa, dated at 61,000 years old, indicates early clothing use.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lice as Indicators of Clothing<\/strong>: DNA analysis of human lice suggests the divergence of head and body lice around 83,000 to 170,000 years ago, indicating early clothing use in Homo sapiens.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Neanderthal Clothing Possibilities<\/strong>: Evidence from animal bones and stone scrapers at Neanderthal sites implies they might have used animal hides as clothing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Continuous Research and Discoveries<\/strong>: Ongoing research and innovative methods continue to uncover evidence about ancient clothing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cultural and Functional Roles of Clothing<\/strong>: Clothing has played roles in protection, societal norms, personal privacy, and self-expression throughout history.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oldest clothes found date back 5,500 years; lice DNA suggests earlier use; ongoing research uncovers ancient textiles, tools, and Neanderthal clothing practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","category-44","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4487,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486\/revisions\/4487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}