Marine archaeologists discovered it when they found a pre-historic camp 30 feet below the surface, 200 yards off the Isle of Wight. The team cut small blocks of the sea floor out for analysis after seeing the wooded remains of the settlement by chance. The string was buried in one of them. The find is remarkable because the fibres, made of organic matter, would usually decay quite quickly.
The results have been published in British Archaeology magazine. Editor Mike Pitts described it as a "fantastic find".He said: "I don't think the average person realises what an important piece of technology string has been over the ages."
Experts believe the settlement was flooded at the end of the last ice age, when glacial sheets that covered most of Europe melted.
Hopefully I will be back with more tales of mankind's greatest friend string
12 comments:
Quite fascinating!
No doubt you have some more strings to your bow, Jams.
By the way,it goes the rumour that the string theory is dangling on a string.
Do you know if there is a list of 100 things you can do with string?
Use of tools advanced humanity, not brain size as previously believed.
Really interesting post.
I'm glad you answered, what drove them to dig 30 feet.
Thanks everyone. This is rather fascinating stuff
Most important discovery.
In reality it is James
That's nothing. I ahve still have remnants of a Silly String in a can party from last year.
That stuff NEVER disintegrates!
I bet that bit of string was once wound round the wrist of a prehistoric man who used it to remember to take out the trash or something so his wife wouldn't nag him.
String has a multitude of uses!
EWBL now that istruly amazing! As for the use I bet you#re right
Wow! I wonder if there were any beads on that string! :D
It would be nice to think it did LB
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