据美国有线新闻网报道，考古学家最近在摩洛哥的一个山洞里发现了62根用于处理和打磨动物皮的骨头，这可能是考古发现中对人类服装最早的指向性证据之一。这些工具距今已有9万至12万年的历史。

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In popular culture、cave men(and women)are often draped in furs、but archaeological evidence of what our stone age ancestors acture

在现代人的认识中，原始人通常披着毛皮，但石器时代我们祖先穿什么，考古证据并不多。

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Drape血；盖起来很放松。攀登

Fur、leather and other organic materials generally aren ' t preserved、especially beyond 100，000 years ago.however、Researchers

10万年前的毛皮、皮革和其他有机材料通常无法保存。但是研究人员表示，在摩洛哥的一个山洞里发现了62块用来处理和打磨动物皮的骨头。这可能是考古学发现中对人类服装最早的指向性证据之一。这些工具距今已有9万至12万年的历史。

I wasn ' t expecting to find them . I was studying this assemblage initially to look at the animal bones to reconstruct the human diet，Said Emily YY

马克斯普朗克人类历史科学研究所泛非进化研究组的博士后科学家艾米莉尤科哈丽特说：“我没想到会发现这些骨头。”我研究这堆化石是为了观察动物的骨骼，以再现人类的食物。" "

And when I was going through them-there were around 12，000 animal bones-I started to notice these bones that had a very different shape

研究作家之一哈丽特这样说。“当我检查这12000多块动物骨头时，我开始注意到这些骨头的形状很不一样。这不是自然的形状。它们很光滑，有光泽，表面有细小的划痕。”9月16日，《iScience》杂志发表了这些研究结果。

unlike the bones discarded after consuming an animal food，bones used regularly by human hands gain a sheen and polish .

与吃动物扔掉的骨头不同，人手经常使用的骨头表面光滑，有光泽。

she also found a pattern of cut marks on other bones in the cave that suggested the humans who lived there were removing the skins of carnivores such as SaaS

ckals and wildcats, for their furs. The bones of cattle-like animals showed different markings, suggesting they were processed for meat.

哈利特还在洞穴中的其他骨骼上发现了一种切割痕迹，这表明居住在那里的人类会剥掉沙狐、金豺和野猫等食肉动物的皮毛。牛骨等动物骨头则显示出不同的痕迹，表明它们是加工取肉的来源。

"I'm most excited about the skinning marks on the carnivores, because I haven't seen this pattern described before. And my hope is that archaeologists working in much older sites also start looking for this pattern," she said.

哈利特说：“食肉动物身上的剥皮痕迹让我很兴奋，因为此前我从未见过这种痕迹。我希望在更古老的遗址工作的考古学家也开始寻找这样的痕迹。”

It's challenging to figure out when the use of clothing began. It's highly likely early humans like Neanderthals that lived in cold climates long before Homo sapiens arrived on the scene had clothing to protect themselves from the extreme weather, but there's not much hard evidence.

我们很难弄清楚人类究竟是从什么时候开始穿衣服的。很可能在智人出现之前，像尼安德特人这样生活在寒冷环境的早期人类就已经开始穿衣御寒了，但是没有确凿证据。

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Homo sapiens 智人（全部现代人的属和种）

Genetic studies of lice indicate that clothing lice diverged from their human head louse ancestors at least 83,000 years ago and possibly as early as 170,000 years ago, which suggests humans were wearing clothes before major migrations out of Africa.

对虱子的基因研究表明，从头虱分化出来的衣虱至少在83000年前就出现了，也可能早在17万年前就存在，这表明人类在大规模迁出非洲之前就已经穿上了衣服。

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Lice (louse的复数形式) 虱子

Hallett said that one of 98 400,000-year-old tools made from elephant bone and recently discovered in Italy may have been used to smooth leather. They were likely used by Neanderthals. Eyed needles emerge in the archaeological record much later, about 40,000 years ago.哈利特说，最近在意大利发现的98件40万年前用大象骨头制成的工具中，有一种可能是用来打磨皮革的，很可能是尼安德特人使用的。缝纫针出现在考古记录中的时间要晚得多，距今约4万年前。

The bone tools from Morocco that Hallett discovered were shaped a bit like a spatula and would have been used to remove connective tissue. Similar bone tools are still used by some leather workers today, Hallett said.

哈利特在摩洛哥发现的骨器形状有点像刮刀，可以用来去除结缔组织。哈利特说，今天一些皮匠仍在使用类似的骨制品。

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Spatula 抹刀，刮刀

"The reason people like using these tools is that they don't pierce the skin, and so you're left with an intact skin," she said.

她说：“人们喜欢使用这些工具的原因是它们不会刺伤皮面，这样能获得一块完好无损的皮革。”

The bone tools were found in Contrebandiers Cave on Morocco's Atlantic coast. Hallett said the climate 120,000 years ago would have been mild, as it is now, raising the possibility that early clothes could have been for ornamentation as well as protection.

这些骨器在摩洛哥大西洋海岸的孔特雷班迪尔斯洞穴中发现。哈利特说，12万年前这里的气候应该很温和，就像现在一样，因此很可能早期的衣物是用于装饰和防护的。

"There's really no extreme temperatures or extreme climate conditions there in the past or today. So that makes me wonder was clothing strictly utilitarian or was it symbolic or was it a little bit of both?"

“在过去或今天，那里真的不存在极端温度或极端天气。因此，我很好奇，衣物是完全实用性的，还是象征性的装饰，或是两者兼而有之呢？”

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