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This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute.

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We humans love to decorate things.

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We wear flashy clothes, tie ribbons to suitcases and personalize the cases for our iPhones.

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And apparently we've had this tendency for a long, long time.

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More than thirty-four thousand years, to be exact.

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Harvard researchers, together with Israeli and Georgian scientists, recently discovered the oldest known fibers used by humans, in a cave by the foothills of Georgia's Caucasus Mountains.

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The researchers weren't searching for thread.

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They were looking for tree pollen samples that would reveal how environmental and temperature fluctuations influenced people's lives.

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But they knew they'd found something historic when they saw the colored thread.

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The fibers were made from wild flax.

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Some were twisted, indicating rope, while others were knotted.

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They might have been used to sew pieces of clothing to keep these ancient people warm.

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Or maybe they tied together packs that would allow the group to be more mobile.

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The strings could also have served as handles for stone tools.

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The fibers were colored black, grey, turquoise and pink.

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So in addition to cave paintings, we now have evidence of cave fashion, the first tentative steps on the way to the cover of Vogue.

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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber.

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