Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part III: Spin Me Right Round

Re:Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part III: Spin Me Right R... by EGreg on Friday March 19, 2021 @09:07AM (#26512843)

This doesn't explain how clothing was made in earliest times. How did people wear anything at all, besides animal skins? Lots of Native American tribes didn't seem to wear much. And uncontacted tribes today, either.

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Re:Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part III: Spin Me Right R... by jcranmer on Friday March 19, 2021 @10:58AM (#26514071)

The author's historical speciality is Classical Antiquity (primarily Rome, IIRC), so his knowledge of pre-agricultural civilizations isn't particularly strong.

He does mention the Native Americans' typical use of "buckskin" in his prior post about the Dothraki's relation to historical steppe peoples (https://acoup.blog/2020/12/04/collections-that-dothraki-hord...).

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Re:Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part III: Spin Me Right R... by TheCoelacanth on Friday March 19, 2021 @05:17PM (#26518218)

> Lots of Native American tribes didn't seem to wear much

That's more Hollywood than history. Look at real photographs and many of them will be covered up completely except for the hands and head.

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Re:Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part III: Spin Me Right R... by avandermeulen on Friday March 19, 2021 @12:14PM (#26515096)

Regarding Native American tribes, the author specifically mentions evidence for the backstrap loom in Incan villages pre-contact and evidence for ground looms in the late Neolithic.

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Re:Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part III: Spin Me Right R... by bluGill on Friday March 19, 2021 @10:05AM (#26513461)

Depends on the climate. What we think of as civilization also comes with cold winters where humans cannot survive without lots of clothing. Native American tribes had warm clothing where it was needed for life.

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Re:Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part III: Spin Me Right R... by 8fGTBjZxBcHq on Friday March 19, 2021 @12:07PM (#26515010)

Like egypt, iraq, the pearl river valley? You know the historical origins of all eurasian agricultural societies and all places without a significant cold winter at all?

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Re:Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part III: Spin Me Right R... by JoeAltmaier on Friday March 19, 2021 @12:27PM (#26515266)

Baghdad can freeze. Egypt can nearly.

We all came from Africa, along the equator. Leaving that environment put special pressure on homo sapiens, including adapting culturally to extreme temperatures.

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