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Earliest Human Beds Found In South Africa

Posted by samzenpus on from the earliest-to-bed dept.

sciencehabit writes "A team working in South Africa claims to have found the earliest known sleeping mats, made of plant material and dated up to 77,000 years ago—50,000 years earlier than previous evidence for human bedding. These early mattresses apparently were even specially prepared to be resistant to mosquitoes and other insects."

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  1. Re:Whaaaaa?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Which raises the question, was that lost technology?

    FTFY

  2. Re:77,000 years? Bah! by TxRv · · Score: 5, Informative

    They have revised the date a bit. Sextus Julius put it at 5500 BC, while the current estimates, based on the Masoritic text of the Tanakh, are all around 4000 BC. (This also conveniently pushed the date sextus picked for the apocalypse (6000 years after creation) up by about 1500 years.)

    Must've been a confusing time for the Sumerians. http://www.theonion.com/articles/sumerians-look-on-in-confusion-as-god-creates-worl,2879/

  3. Re:Whaaaaa?? by VortexCortex · · Score: 2, Informative

    Which begs the question

    You keep using those words.
    I do not think they mean what you think they mean.

    Ah, but what do you care if your contribution to the dilution helps to lose us an important tool to combat logical fallacies?
    You speak of their lost technology, while actively ignoring and destroying your own.