{"id":11738,"date":"2021-10-19T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11738"},"modified":"2021-11-07T13:03:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T20:03:31","slug":"pleistocene-couture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/10\/19\/pleistocene-couture\/","title":{"rendered":"Pleistocene Couture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/evidence-of-fur-and-leather-clothing-among-worlds-oldest-found-in-moroccan-cave-180978689\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Smithsonian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Evidence of Fur and Leather Clothing, Among World\u2019s Oldest, Found in Moroccan Cave<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Humans likely sported clothes made of jackal, fox and wildcat skins some 120,000 years ago<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/author\/brian-handwerk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Brian Handwerk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/th-thumbnailer.cdn-si-edu.com\/aArrpJpHZrl4I83iS-mdK52JWGU=\/1000x750\/filters:no_upscale():focal(700x527:701x528)\/https:\/\/tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/filer_public\/d2\/ab\/d2ab854f-2c23-4775-a585-e5beccd912d2\/fouaal-0_web.jpg\" alt=\"Stone Tools Used For Making Clothes\"\/><figcaption><em>A bone tool from Contrebandiers Cave likely used for making clothes out of the skin of predators.\u00a0Jacopo Niccol\u00f2 Cerasoni<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fur is a controversial fashion statement these days. But stepping out in a wildcat cape or jackal wrap was de rigueur for Pleistocene humans, according to the recent discovery of a 120,000-year-old leather and fur production site that contains some of the oldest archaeological evidence for human clothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Homo sapiens at the site first made and wore clothes around the onset of an Ice Age which may suggest that, even in relatively mild Morocco, clothes were adopted as a way to keep warm. But the invention of animal-based apparel also corresponds with the appearance of personal adornments, like shell beads, which hints that prehistoric clothing, like today\u2019s styles, could have been about style as well as functionality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/evidence-of-fur-and-leather-clothing-among-worlds-oldest-found-in-moroccan-cave-180978689\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Smithsonian<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Smithsonian Evidence of Fur and Leather Clothing, Among World\u2019s Oldest, Found in Moroccan Cave Humans likely sported clothes made of jackal, fox and wildcat skins some 120,000 years ago by Brian Handwerk Fur is a controversial fashion statement these days. But stepping out in a wildcat cape or jackal wrap was de rigueur for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}