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Re:What if we called it the Flax Age instead of the Iron Age? by ncmncm on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @02:10PM (#21587310)
It is one thing for somebody to notice and use such fibers, and completely another for the practice to become part of the material culture.

Archaeology is concerned with the latter. How a practice entered the material culture is an interesting detail.

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