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Earliest-known example of possible clothing found among the perishable items preserved for more than 12,000 years in caves in Oregon
Two small pieces of hide connected by cord, found with other perishable items preserved for about 12,400 years in the Cougar Mountain Cave rock shelter in Oregon, may be the earliest-known specimen of sewing found to date, researchers suggest. If so, this is the first remnant of actual clothing ever found from the Late Pleistocene, a time when modern humans spread into the freezing lands of the north.
