Clothes from 8k years ago were made from trees, new research suggests

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Stone Age cities sound like something of an oxymoron. But as many as 10,000 people lived in Çatalhöyük in Turkey some 8,000-9,000 years ago. This makes it the largest known settlement from what archaeologists call the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods.

“Çatalhöyük is one of the most famous archaeological sites,” says Lise Bender Jørgensen.

“In the past, researchers largely neglected the possibility that the fabric fibers could be anything other than wool or linen, but lately another material has received more attention,” Bender Jørgensen says.

People in Çatalhöyük used assorted varieties of exactly this material.

“Bast fibers were used for thousands of years to make rope, thread, and in turn also yarn and cloth,” says Bender Jørgensen.

A fiber sample from a basket turned out to be made of grass, but several of the textiles are clearly made of bast fiber from oak trees. They are also the oldest preserved woven fabrics in the world.

“These findings shed new light on early textile production in the Neolithic, suggesting that tree bast played a more significant role than previously recognised,” the scientists wrote in their paper.

Sources - https://gizmodo.com/clothes-from-8-000-years-ago-were-made-from-trees-new-1848041648, https://scitechdaily.com/what-was-ancient-clothing-like-see-one-of-the-oldest-pieces-of-cloth-in-the-world/

[Mother of Puppies 36,615]

I could imagine Gaga wearin' something like that

 

A "tree dress"

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OK but is it fashion?  

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5 minutes ago, Mother of Puppies said:

I could imagine Gaga wearin' something like that

 

A "tree dress"

Would fit the ARTPOP era, to be sure

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14 minutes ago, Mother of Puppies said:

I could imagine Gaga wearin' something like that

 

A "tree dress"

 

8 minutes ago, TheDemonIClingTo said:

Would fit the ARTPOP era, to be sure

She has already done that. The way this woman is years ahead of everyone 

Just so you know, this dress is made from very thin layers of pine wood.

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Strut it out, walk a mile, serve it Neolithic style

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12 hours ago, Meat said:

 

She has already done that. The way this woman is years ahead of everyone 

Just so you know, this dress is made from very thin layers of pine wood.

The green tribe on Chromatica is so inventive 

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Kweens of the stone age

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Well Rayon is made of wood pulp so it’s not totally weird to wear a tree since we still do.

[Chic 20,830]

Well wood you look at that 

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3 minutes ago, Chic said:

Well wood you look at that 

Jail!

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The green tribe representing… “Ancient city style”