Archaeologists Uncover 9,500-Year-Old Woven Baskets and Europe’s Oldest Sandals
smithsonianmag.com
smithsonianmag.com
https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/fort_rock_sandal...
The sandals found ant Fort Rock are 9-13,000 years old. The article refers to a 6,200 year old find.
He's right by the way. Presumably he's downvoted because people only read the headline and assumed the sandals are the same age as the baskets? TFA clearly states that the sandals "could" be as old as 6,200 years. Second sentence.
“My first reaction was, ‘Oh my God, that is not possible,’”
If you were aware of the Fort Rock sandals and their age, then this is not only possible, but quite probable given similar finds from thousands of years before already existed - on another continent.
https://news.uchicago.edu/explainer/what-is-carbon-14-dating....
>Radiocarbon dating works on organic materials up to about 60,000 years of age.
Which would certainly cover a woven basket. What exactly from the link should a reader take away, which is relevant to the article and the point you're trying to make?
That's durability, no joke.
The paper is here: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adi3055
The full list of finds is on this supplementary PDF: https://www.science.org/action/downloadSupplement?doi=10.112...
They're identified as baskets 579, 580 and 581.
> The three dated objects (579, 580, and 581) corresponding to the earlier occupation phase of the cave (phase 1) are 3D twined baskets made with raw esparto. They are well preserved compared with the other fiber-based materials, being almost complete and decorated with geometric motifs made with dyed fibers (Fig. 2A); some incorporate human hairs or pigments (Fig. 2B). Other baskets recovered at the cave (582, 583, 585, 586, 586a, 586b, 592, and 593) share similar morphologies, techniques, and raw material, suggesting that they are also related to phase 1.