In Oregon’s Cougar Mountain Cave, scientists found the oldest sewn clothing—12,400-year-old elk hide scraps stitched with fiber, preserved by arid air. Study of 27.8M Americans may have revealed ...

In a study of nearly 28 million older Americans, long-term exposure to fine particle air pollution raised the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. That link held even after researchers accounted for common ...

The sewn hide, pictured from the front and the back, alongside another hide artifact from Cougar Mountain Cave Richard L. Rosencrance, et al., Science Advances, 2026 Researchers say they may have ...

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A 1950s find of Late Pleistocene perishable items from two Oregon caves was recently made available to scientists. Included in the 55 items were two pieces of elk hide stitched together, dated to ...

This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. It’s no surprise that humans living during the last Ice Age needed to stay warm. It comes as more of a shock that researchers have fresh examples of ...

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 ...

Sewn hide and other hide items from CMC. Credit: Richard L. Rosencrance et al. / CC BY-NC 4.0 Archaeologists have identified what may be the world’s oldest known sewn animal hide among a collection of ...

The creation of this article included the use of AI and was edited by human content creators. Read more on our AI policy here. What did the earliest Americans wear to survive brutal Ice Age winters?

The oldest sewn object (both sides shown, left) consists of two pieces of hide joined at the top with a piece of cord made from twisted fibers (right). Credit: Rosencrance et al., Sci. Adv. In the ...

A University of Houston psychology professor is challenging the notion that dyslexia, or specific reading disorder, stems from a single faulty gene in the brain, suggesting instead that it is caused ...