Old string.....

[Mesquite]

Just saw this in the paper 8,000 year old string. Interesting reading about it

 

[Galemys]

Thank's for that, very interesting.

Cheers,

Tom

PS I must try to find a woman's thigh next time I make string

 

[Ozhaggishead]

Thanks mate,like little bit of history like this.

 

[Toddy]

That's just shoved the date for the earliest cordage in Europe back by several thousand years

Brilliant bit of archaeology approve:

cheers,
Toddy

 

[BorderReiver]

Thanks for the link. A nice bit of very hard archaeology that.

BTW, it's in papers other than the Mail as well, so it's probably factual.

 

[bushcraftbob]

Cheers enjoyed reading that.

Would love to be an archaeologist..!

 

[Cobweb]

Very cool

 

[Kerne]

Very interesting. Four and a half inches? That's about four inches more than I managed on my Woodlore course.

 

[Armleywhite]

How the hell has it survived that long?

 

[Toddy]

Probably in clay in anaerobic conditions.........I do wonder what it's made of though, acidic environments decay woody fibres like flax and hemp, though it preferentially preserves wool.

cheers,
Toddy

 

[Tadpole]

Probably in clay in anaerobic conditions.........I do wonder what it's made of though, acidic environments decay woody fibres like flax and hemp, though it preferentially preserves wool.

cheers,
Toddy

I know it was only 4000 years old, but wasn't a sting of honeysuckle discovered at sea henge?

 

[launditch1]

Yeah,there was some honeysuckle cord found on the seahenge stump,used to drag it into place...BTW,there is a reproduction of it still standing...As for old string,there were numerous examples found in the belonginngs of 'otzi the iceman'.