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Earliest Human Beds Found In South Africa
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."
My friends in the Word,
These atheist-backed scientists have surely fabricated these so-called "sleeping mats," as it is clearly outlined in the Bible that God created Adam and Eve 5,000 years ago. Note that I am not questioning the existence of these mats, as these could have possibly BEEN used by Adam or one of his descendants after being thrown out of Eden, I am questioning the "evidence" of their age from the so-called "carbon-dating" process. I wish these scientists well with their work and pray that they will break free from the yoke of grants from godless individuals and governments.
Your friend,
Jake
Did it come from IKEA?
It's a nasty habit that I've been trying to quit for 77,000 years.
For people wondering how a mattress could possibly be mosquito resistant it was because it was made out of a specific plant that was a natural insecticide.
Which begs the question, was that lost technology? I don't see Africans using it for the past couple thousand years or anyone else.
My favorite from the article:
"There were no rules for separate eating, working, or sleeping places," she says. "Breakfast in bed may have been an almost daily occurrence."
Perhaps not. I am sure there was the, "Don't touch Thag's shit rule" though.
Have gnu, will travel.
So the bed wasn't made from, 3 wool and 3 wood planks?
SLOW day at Slashdot.
Slow day.
You could just go lay down on a bed and talk a nap instead of reading slashdot then.
"To prevent this day from getting any worse, I'll just read ERROR as GOOD THING" 1GJU8xLuDKDxEs4KLf8fAGyptoDsqvEsBT
Dr. Wadley today announced an incredible discovery relating to the prehistoric mattresses, each had a protruding leaf with sub-millimeter perforations. These perforations outlined words on the leaves: "Do Not Remove Under Penalty of Law. Tongati River Mattress Works. Composition 35% Sedges, 40% Rushes, 25% Grasses. Machine Wash Cold. Do Not Bleach. Machine Drying May Degrade Flame Retardant, Please Hang Dry".
Believed to depict a woman placing her cold-ass feet on the back of a male sleeping on the same cot.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
That's fine and all part of science - learning naturally alters what you know. From that perspective, it's hardly a surprise. Earliest dates for cooking, advanced stone tool making, etc, have been pushed back by far more significant amounts this year. Domestication of horses may also have been much earlier, but for some curious reason the scholars there have... ...declined to release the data. Anyways, I don't regard that part as being particularly news.
The newsworthy elements to this story:
* Further evidence of abstract and indirect thinking in early humans, pretty much putting beyond question that these skills existed back then
* Further evidence of society evolving gradually rather than in big leaps
* Further evidence that archaeology is massively underfunded given its contributions to understanding of the human condition
* Further evidence that academics in the field are completely incapable of communicating with each other, as there would otherwise be no surprise
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)