The String Revolution
This DB is in response to the Required Reading: Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times, by Elizabeth Wayland Barber (New York and London: W.W. Norton and Company, 1995). READ Chapter 2: "The String Revolution” (pp.42-70)
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Choose one thing about the reading that surprised you about the history of spinning fiber, and write an original 150-250 word post on what you found to be most unexpected in terms of the significance of string in the Paleolithic Era. Here are some topics to include in your posting:
Early uses of string referenced in the chapter
Early forms of garments and their symbolism
Division of labor in the prehistoric era
Information gleaned for historians and anthropologists from the Venus of Willendorf
Pleae read post requirements and the article, thank you!
The String Revolution
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Early Use of String
The Paleolithic Era is when humans are mainly hunters and gatherers who utilize stones as the main component of their hunting and gathering materials. The stone tools have irregular shapes and unfurnished ends, and the humans solely rely on the sharpness of the edges. However, humans of this period discovered the use of strings, even before the discovery of fibers, such that they surprisingly used materials from the wild and created a “skirt” (Barber, 1994).
It is most surprising that the humans of this period utilized string to create clothing, specifically, the skirt. Sewing was discovered as one of the earliest uses of string in the Upper Paleolithic Culture, partic...
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