Pants degrade much more than a flute made of bone, I’m not sure we can say humans didn’t have pants simply because we didn’t find them.
You make a good point .
But counterpoint, if I could be prancing around in the woods with a flute instead of plunging computer bits, you couldn’t keep my pants on if you tried.
Calm down, Pan.
tootle toot
I could settle for a skirt though.
Very likely, it would have been a leather or hide used as a textile. So they might have survived in burials to some degree.
Though, what’s sort of funny is that humans got close, and just never connected leggins to whatever covered the hips.
Otzi from 3200 BC wore a loincloth, a belt, and leggings. Sort of like if you were wearing a kilt and socks that went to your crotch, and had a garter so they connected to your belt. So “pants” is all about when did people start attaching leggings to their loincloths. Or loincloths to your leggings. Apparently not super popular for most of human history.
Oh! Anthropologically NSFW images showing the clothing. It’s like assless chaps!
To be honest I am surprised by the 3000 year old pant as very early. Pants require a lot of sewing to make, and are totally optional- ask a scot, tarzan, a legionnaire, or a tunic-wearing ancient oligarch.
Eeeh… We’ve been writing stuff down for over 5000 years already and farming for longer. 3000 years is not that old in the grand scheme of things.
All chaps are assless.
Nah, there’s a lot of lads with cake.
Bone pants
Less these days…
If it works in Dwarf Fortress, it works in real life.
Fuck that, I want cast iron pants.
What a fantastic example of drawing incorrect conclusions from two correct facts. Context and circumstances matter. Respect them, or this could be you!
I just like the idea that they were wearing a suit and tie on top and hammering away at the drums, bottomless.
Don’t threaten me with a good time!
I mean, pants are a specific kind of clothes.
I reckon our ancestors were much cleverer than we credit them for and probably had pants embedded in their trousers. Some sort of clip-on solution.
As an American, it took me a few moments to remember that, in some places pants ≠ trousers.
According to ESR dating, the age of the flute is now estimated at 50,000 to 60,000 years BP.
It’s been–
*jits been–
No it doesn’t it suggests that the oldest known musical instrument is 34k years old and the earliest evidence of pants is from about 3000 years ago.
Somebody should let Flea know that they’ve invented pants.
I wear no pants
