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Anthropology

intaglio

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3. Fair comment

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Reply #2)

Wed Nov 20, 2013, 02:33 PM

Nov 2013

but adding a qualifying phrase to your title such as ' " ... the lack of twisted fibres" produced accidentally by other methods' might have been better.

As to why string rather than sinew? Sinew has many problems, examples include making long runs without knots and the greater vulnerability of sinew to both extremes of humidity.

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String actuality - strong evidence for Neanderthals making string [View all] intaglio Nov 2013 OP

Over and over again we underestimate the ingenuity of our human and non-human predecessors n/t Victor_c3 Nov 2013 #1

'While not definitive, the lack of twisted fibres' Ichingcarpenter Nov 2013 #2

Fair comment intaglio Nov 2013 #3

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