including the Alexeev Harvard Lectures on African remains in Russia
from 27,000 years ago. Women wear what anthropologist have determined
is a weaved hat from that era.
http://www.beforebc.de/Related.Subjects/The.Gold.Age/51-10-60-01.html
Text from the web page above:
Depending on the measure, the human being has existed for 7 million
years. For all the concern over proper dress, we have been unclothed
for 7 million years minus only the last 7,000 years. Part A: a - h,
e.g., shows that from the first human sculpture, the Venus of
Willendorf (b) 25,000 BC until, roughly, the Moldavian Venus (h) of
6000 BC, the human being went about naked.
Part B: 1 - 7 gives an encapsulation of the history of weaving, cloth-
making, and clothes-making. Steatophygia is a trait associated with
African women. The archeological record leaves us the evidence that it
is these African women (B: 1c, 2d, 4c, 5c, 8d-e) and others present at
the place and time textile-making was being created (B: 3b, 4b-d, 6c,
7b) who were involved in the invention and spread of the tradition of
cloth-making to humanity.
HISTORY: the weaving of thread twining it by hand was the first stage
of clothmaking. It was followed by the use of the spindle (or whorl) -
a donut-shaped object (B: 1a, 2a, 3a, 4a, 6a-b, 7a).
EVOLUTION: We can trace the evolution of technology of textile-making
in some locations as Egypt (3a to 3c); Greece (4a - 4d); Mexico (7a -
7c). We also see that dresses are the same today as they were when
first made with, apparently, soft materials and dyed patterns as in
the dress from Hacilar, Turkey (B: 1c) almost 9000 years ago or Greece
(B:4c) some 8000 years ago.
WHO MADE, HOW MUCH, WHO WORE? Three dozen times in Homer’s Iliad and
Odyessy, we read of queens and noble women weaving cloth. At the
beginning, it is only royalty who had the time and right (as it were)
to wear clothes. Over the millenniums, it became something for the
masses and Madison Avenue.
Marc Washington
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