Did Neanderthals wear clothing, jewelry or other accessories? There's not much in the archaeological record to suggest so, but researchers are turning to indirect evidence for clues about ancient fashion styles.
Did Neanderthals wear clothing, jewelry or other accessories? There's not much in the archaeological record to suggest so, but researchers are turning to indirect evidence for clues about ancient fashion styles.The Neanderthals had a good run. They were around from at least 200,000 years ago to about 42,000 years ago, only a couple millennia after they began to interbreed with modern humans.
“The archaeological record is very poor in this case,” says Abel Moclán, an archaeologist at the Regional Archaeological Museum in Madrid., which live in clothing but feed on humans, found that the insects only originated about 72,000 to 42,000 years ago, when modern humans migrated out of Africa. This may suggest clothing wasn’t around beforehand.
“It can only be related to the extraction of the pelt, because you don’t have meat here and you don’t have marrow,” he says, adding that the marks themselves compare well to other examples of pelt extraction in the fossil record. “They are clearly the type of movement you would need to make to extract the bones from the pelt.”
While in most cases, these cut marks are associated with meat extraction on herbivores, some cuts indicate pelt removal was taking place, as well.Mammals aren’t the only animal remains from that era found with cut marks. A number of birds dating to Neanderthal periods also have signs that feathers, or other inedible parts, were also removed — raising the possibility that they were used for jewelry or other accessories.
Taken together, it’s possible that some Neanderthals were using animals pelts to keep warm, at least some of the time. Some of these clothes or accessories also may have also been symbolic.At this time, researchers begin to find more accessories in association with Neanderthals. In Bulgaria, researchers found what appear to beroughly the time when humans arrived. These pendants also resemble others found in France and Spain, linked to Neanderthals dating from 40,000 to 44,000 years ago.
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