June
04
/ 2020
The colorful threads, strings, yarns, twines, and ropes that wove together the Neolithic world have greatly rotted back to whence they came, leaving archaeologists and anthropologists only grey stone and bone artifacts with which to draw their conclusions of the past. Nature’s withering effects also means the study of Neolithic textiles relies heavily on the examination of secondary evidence. This is the case now, as archaeologists have announced that while they haven’t discovered a piece of 5,000-year-old fabric, they have found a textile impression pressed onto the surface of an ancient clay pot. Only the Second of its Type Ever Discovered Covering 2.5 hectares and located between the Ring of Brodgar and the Stones of Stenness in the Heart of
