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2 10, 2017

African clothing history – weaving, knitting, embroidery

By |2019-08-21T09:33:22-07:00October 2nd, 2017|Africa|Comments Off on African clothing history – weaving, knitting, embroidery

African clothing history:  An Egyptian painting of Nubians (from modern Sudan), about 1300 BC Weaving comes to Africa By about 2500 BC, some people in Africa started to weave their cloth instead of pounding [...]

11 09, 2017

West Asian clothing – Mesopotamia and Iran

By |2019-09-05T05:43:00-07:00September 11th, 2017|West Asia|Comments Off on West Asian clothing – Mesopotamia and Iran

Tel Asmar, ca. 3000 BC Most likely people were already wearing clothing about 60,000 years ago when they first walked or sailed out of Africa to West Asia. Clothing must have been invented about this time [...]

10 09, 2017

Ancient history timeline: 10,000-4000 BC – the Stone Age

By |2018-04-19T15:03:06-07:00September 10th, 2017|History, West Asia, When|4 Comments

Ancient history timeline: Building at Gobekli Tepe in what is now  Turkey (ca. 9000 BC) Beginning of farming Around 10,000 BC, with the end of the last major Ice Age, people all [...]

8 09, 2017

What are llamas? South American animals

By |2019-11-12T21:05:35-08:00September 8th, 2017|Environment, South America|Comments Off on What are llamas? South American animals

A llama in Bolivia - llamas live in South America Where did llamas come from? Llamas evolved from camels. Camels evolved in North America about 45 million years ago. They lived in the [...]

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