200.000 Jahre alte Betten

[ulfr]

... in Südafrika gefunden:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/old ... -repellent

"Remnants of the oldest known grass bedding, discovered in South Africa’s Border Cave, lay on the ashes of previously burned bedding, say archaeologist Lyn Wadley of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and her colleagues. Ash spread beneath bound bunches of grass may have been used to repel crawling, biting insects, which cannot easily move through fine powder, the researchers report in the Aug. 14 Science. Wadley’s team also found bits of burned wood in the bedding containing fragments of camphor leaves, an aromatic plant that can be used as a bug repellent."

Hier auf Deutsch:
https://www.wissenschaft.de/geschichte- ... -gebettet/

[Medivh]

Sehr interessant, solche Techniken werden heute ja auch noch von diversen Survival-Experten verwendet. Schön, dass solch ein Nachtlager/Bett noch aufgefunden werden konnte.