Indigenous groups in present-day Oregon stitched the fragments together using cord made from plant fiber and animal hair.

A piece of sewn animal hide found in an Eastern Oregon cave may be one of the oldest known pieces of sewn clothing, dating ...

The oldest physical remains of sewn clothing have been discovered in an Oregon cave, representing a vital turning point in the development of human culture. That’s according to a new paper by a group ...

Archaeologists have identified the oldest known example of sewn hide, a small fragment of elk hide meticulously stitched with twisted fiber, dating back approximately 12,400 years. Found within Cougar ...

Through carbon dating, researchers have ruled that the artifacts are between approximately 11,700 and 12,900 years old, a ...

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For 12,400 years, the cave’s arid air preserved two small scraps of elk hide stitched together with twisted fiber. These ...

In 1958, an amateur archaeologist named John Cowles excavated the Cougar Mountain Cave in Oregon and retained many of the artifacts found there. Upon his death in the 1980s, these items were ...

In the early morning light, the desert surrounding Tucson, Arizona, USA, glows in soft shades of gold and rose. Saguaros lift their arms toward the sky as we make the short drive southeast into the ...