Historical Yarns · The Archaeology Podcast Network

Neanderthals Making Yarn?!

·38 min·3 clips
Archaeologists found a 40,000-year-old cord made by Neanderthals, challenging our view of their intelligence.
Host Rachel Roden and guest Chris Webster explore a 2020 article about Neanderthals creating yarn from plant fibers 40,000 years ago, discussing its preservation, spinning techniques, and implications for understanding Neanderthal cognition and technology.

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A fiber question becomes a grounded look at Neanderthal fiber technology and the study's terminology.

A headline about Neanderthals and yarn sounds playful, but the episode takes the subject seriously, treating it as a look at prehistoric fiber technology and cognition.

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