Re: Did the Neanderthals have nets?


Jois wrote:
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Any evidence of rope?

String seems to have appeared with AMH and rope had to even later than
that.

Jois

Hi, Jois,
Personally, I find it hard to believe that very early man, and
possible hominims, wouldn't have noticed that sinews along the back can
be stripped off to make a string or rope to bundle something up with or
hold down branches for a hut of sorts. When might braiding been
invented? Or twisting the split sinew into a string? Probably never
know - Certainly not the earliest use.
According to Earnest Thomson Seton (not the best source), the
Indians used the bark of the leatherwood bush as cord, since it can be
stripped off easily, and is very tough. Wasn't there an
impression in clay of something that looked like a net, found in Spain.
Like Mark Twain, my memory is going - pretty soon I'll only be able to
remember things that never happened.
Regars
John GW

Hemp is a more likely candidate, either chewed or rock-beaten.


Isn't hemp a crop? Not something you find hanging around in large wet swamps
(for example):

http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Hemp

"Wild hemp still grows on the banks of the lower Ural, and the Volga, near
the Caspian Sea. It extends to Persia, the Altai range and northern and
western China. The authors of the Pharmacographia say: - "It is found in
Kashmir and in the Himalaya, growing io to 12 ft. high, and thriving
vigorously at an elevation of 6000 to io,000 ft." Wild hemp is, however, of
very little use as a fibre producer, although a drug is obtained from it.

"It would appear that the native country of the hemp plant is in some part
of temperate Asia, probably near the Caspian Sea. It spread westward
throughout Europe, and southward through the Indian peninsula."
Hemp was the first plant known to have been domestically cultivated.
The oldest relic of human history is hemp fabric dated to 8,000 BC from
ancient Mesopotamia.

http://www.whutaworld.com/2hempfaq.html

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