12,000-year-old realistic human statue was unearthed

Re:12,000-year-old realistic human statue was unearthed by matkoniecz on Monday October 02, 2023 @08:24AM (#37737203)

> In reasonably fertile area they can spend ~15 hours per week on food and ~15-20 hours per week on domestic chores.

on what you base this one? (from what I remember this time would not be even to even produce clothes - unless it is for area of world where no clothing is needed?)

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Re:12,000-year-old realistic human statue was unearthed by nyrikki on Monday October 02, 2023 @09:03AM (#37737537)

There is a very large difference not being able to produce clothes and not finding clothing that happens to be preserved.

Currently the guesses are 40,000 to 3 million years ago.

These people in this article are just as intelligent as modern humans.

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Re:12,000-year-old realistic human statue was unearthed by defrost on Monday October 02, 2023 @09:11AM (#37737607)

There are rock art painting depicting details on ceremonial costumes that date back 18,000 years BP, so clothing goes back at least that far.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37733157

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Re:12,000-year-old realistic human statue was unearthed by Retric on Monday October 02, 2023 @09:24AM (#37737746)

1960’s studies of the Bushmen one of the last remaining hunter gatherer groups had roughly that much time spent working. They really spent quite a lot of time working on hobbies and socializing.

Processing animal skins is also a lot faster than weaving. Clothing is ~170,000 years old, weaving is very recent by comparison.

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